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Best advice in the post:

"Easy. I stopped reading Techcrunch."

42Floors is a magnitude bigger than my company (http://periscope.io) and has always seemed like one of those runaway startup successes that we aspire to and occasionally despair of. Reading something this is incredibly motivating. Thank you for writing.

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Man, I wish it was a runaway success. Absolutely nothing has come easy. But we're getting there.

One of the reasons I wrote that post a year ago was that I had to own up to the fact that we looked better than we actually were.

"One of the reasons I wrote that post a year ago was that I had to own up to the fact that we looked better than we actually were."

How very un-Internet-y of you. :)

This is why I am always so impressed by your writing Jason. Thanks for 1) taking to the time to write these articles and the more advice-style ones, they have always been useful to me as a founder and 2) being honest and open (to the extent appropriate) in these articles. Being a founder is an exercise in self-doubt above everything else, and its important to talk about.

You've got a nice website there! Though it is impossible to read without zooming out on a non-widescreen monitor. The page overflows to the left and right.

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