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		sys_64738 on Oct 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success Absolutely. Better to do a startup early and see it fail than make the same mistake mid-career. It showed me startups are a mug’s game.

_dujt on Oct 28, 2019 | [–]

Yeah it’s best to get the lesson early on that venture-backed startups are 99% of the time just smoke and mirrors.

Bootwizard on Oct 28, 2019 | [–]

What about bootstrapped startups vs. VC backed startups?

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