vely influence
their grade or relationship with the teachers, and thus the students were
motivated to give more positive answers than they otherwise might have.

I wonder if founders giving answers here had names attached to their answers
or if they were anonymous at submission-time.

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tedmiston
That's how every university course evaluation I've ever done has worked.
Though they say data is shielded from the instructor until after final grades
are submitted. Not sure if that applies to the Trump thing.

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benmarten
Are we in a bubble answered yes is declining from 73% -> 57%. That means the
real probability of being in a bubble just increased ;P Remember the 2008
crisis was only seen by very few in advance...

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EduardoBautista
> 9\. Are you optimizing for growth or profitability?

> Profitability - 39%

> Growth - 61%

This is what happens when your business goal is to get acquired and not to
have a business sustained by paying customers.

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pc86
Well this is one of the few but key differences between a "startup" and a
"business."

A business that isn't profitable is either a hobby or a bad idea. A startup
that isn't growing is dead. Personally I'd rather make $5/10/15/25k a month
with a _business_ than kill myself trying to get millions in funding, pay
myself a $10k/mo in salary and leave with nothing through either failure,
dilution or some combination thereof.

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rsp1984
Given that you can make $5/10/15/25k a month with a cushy 9-5 corporate job
where everything's taken care of for you, in most cases the choice is not
small-business vs. startup, it's corporate job vs. startup.

The "lifestyle" self-running company that spits out a comfortable amount of
cash and is easier to handle than a corporate job is somewhere between a myth
and a unicorn. It's _very_ rare. If you want to stay on the legal side of
things it takes a great amount of connections, experience, time and effort to
build such a company. You might as well invest that time in a "proper" startup
and get some funding. Chances of succ