I think the famous line from the Joker really describe startup founders who survive long enough to get a viable startup... "Whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stranger."
It wouldn't be that bad until i read in their other post this:<p>"It is exciting times right now in Russia. After long history of existing on resource-driven oil & gas economy, the country is making strides to leapfrog its way into high technology powerhouse. The press is abuzz with talks on technology parks and fostering a start-up culture.
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Like everybody else, we got excited hearing the recent news from Russia."<p>In PC-language it is called "PR".
My biggest problem with the article is that it seems to think a startup is only successful if it hits a huge, exploding market, like Microsoft/Facebook did. On the contrary, plenty of successful startups have been formed on markets which didn't explode and get huge overnight, but were plenty big enough to sustain more players.