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Take away the point about the 12-hour difference, and you can repurpose this article into: Why Silicon Valley startups are doomed.

-Resource Availability

-Resource Quality

- Employee turnover

- Mindset and work ethics

- Cost

A truly lazy piece of writing about generic/cylical demand-supply challenges that most booming industries end up facing.

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Referring to people as resources is normally reserved for Outlook resources at financial institutions.

Most companies above a certain size have a human resources department.

Sure, but that's because most companies above a certain size are old, and department names are the last to change. Younger companies have 'people and culture' or similar.

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