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Would you regard it as a wise investment to put your entire life savings on a single spin of the wheel at Vegas?

While you may not lose actual money with a failed startup - that is, if you have the G-d Given Sense to save some of your salary - failed startups, even many successful ones have many other costs.

A close friend and coworker at Live Picture became homeless. He's doing well now but when he told me of his plight I was concerned he would take his own life.

Consider the essays the Elon Musk's ex-wife likes to write about how to become a billionaire.

My own divorce had quite a lot to do with my own effort to succeed in business. I did not have funding because I did not pursue it, but had I sought funding our marriage would not have lasted as long as it did.



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