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> Starting something in the hopes of making an extra $1,000 a month is every bit as worthy as trying to colonize Mars. Start small and give your ambitions room to grow.

This was my favorite takeaway from this blog post. Rob Walling presents a similar idea in his book "Start Small, Stay Small.

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But most of us want to start small and grow big.

You're probably right, and that's the only way a VC will make any returns. But there's also a large group of us on HN who would be very content to bootstrap our own projects and retire with a relatively small amount of passive income.

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