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What It Takes To Work In A Startup (dplouffe.ca)
9 points by wrath on Dec 13, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


This list uncannily resembles the one that was posted the other day about "what I learned from working at Microsoft".


I came here to say this too. This article doesn't have a date on it, so I can't tell if this is the chicken or the egg. I suspect that this one came second. If that's the case, it would have been nice for the author to acknowledge the original post in his introduction.


Oh, I wasn't thinking it was plagiarized, just that the advice is so generic that it could apply to either startups or bigcos. In fact, it so approximates the worst of this annoying genre that I wonder if it is a parody.


I came here to say this too...


Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=991968

That's currently 23 hours old and has 137 points karma. Interesting to know who ripped off whom, but there's more in the one I quote than the one lunk to from here ...




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