The Hardest Lessons for Startups to learn

I wish I came up with that title and post but I didn’t. It is from Paul Graham and you can read it here: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

One thing I loved in the article is this paragraph. I think it is something every entrepreneurs can recognise:

If an ordinary employee were asked to do the things a startup founder has to, he’d be very indignant. Imagine if you were hired at some big company, and in addition to writing software ten times faster than you’d ever had to before, they expected you to answer support calls, administer the servers, design the web site, cold-call customers, find the company office space, and go out and get everyone lunch. And to do all this not in the calm, womb-like atmosphere of a big company, but against a backdrop of constant disasters.