"Once entrepreneur, you’ll understand what it means to identify markets and customer needs, and you won’t need the baby steps spelled out for you. You’ll be using those big words yourself." I'm sure the blistering condescension is tongue-in-cheek, but "great team DNA" really is lame-speak. - ⓞnor

I think there's been an interesting shift of thoughts coming out of Y Combinator...if I remember some early articles Paul had said something along the lines of "startups work 10 times as hard for just a little bit of time rather than regular employees who work not that hard for a long period of time. But reading your post and hearing Marc Andreesen speak yesterday it seems like startups are becoming more long-term commitments (ie: careers) rather than one and done things (not to say that they ever were, but that was the outside perception)...so what's it like being a career start-upper? - Adam Kazwell

from a few passing remarks (via Pmarca, others) it sounds like even the lifers find it quite exhausting. - Adam Kazwell