I would like to digress for a moment.

When I read things like the TL;DR of that article I get the feeling the tech industry is full of entitled children who are playing imaginary. No product, no orders, no revenue, no resources... isn't that usually just called no company?

Why do tech "startups" delude themselves into thinking that a group of guys and/or gals is something other than a group of guys and/or gals?

Can you imagine going down to your local shopping plaza, and there is this guy standing outside of an empty building, holding a big cardboard sign that reads:

    This behind me is supposed to
    be my store. It's supposed to
    have groceries and other stuff.
    But, we don't have any money
    or customers, or a store, or
    any groceries. We have a name
    though... and a logo :)

You probably can't imagine seeing that, because that person would be entirely delusional.