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                1. Lol, entering a weird startup blogging twilight zone where everyone needs VC, money is "literally" burnt, and you *have* to "scale".
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                Do they really not realize there are local small businesses, self+funded startups, and businesses that aim at a specific size?
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              We've lost a generation of inventions & ideas to Silicon Valley's bad definition of a start up. Businesses that could have run reasonably
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            Not to mention the foolhardy worship of money & the people who hold it, the assumption that wealth equals smarts, built into the VC system
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          How many presidential elections will it take before we realize rich isn't brilliant & sometimes a startup success is a one off accident?
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        Or more about hiring the right subordinates at the right time
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      I don't think it's wild to assume that you can draw a line between some of SV's weird support of Trump and constant confidence in smart VCs
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    And yeah: The tech media *is* complicit in promoting this thinking. It's a hard thing to build a startup, but it deserves our critique.
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      When is the last time you read a mainstream tech news piece about a startup that analyzed its business plan, or questioned its product?
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        It happens so rarely, and in part it's that quiet assumption that if sometime invested tens of millions than they must Know Something.


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