How did this happen?<p>@PaulDacus99 is in the same hacking community I am. I have never met the guy IRL. I watched his hilarious tweets scroll across my screen for two solid days. You could tell he felt like he had been put through the wringer.<p>After I got done laughing, I realized that a lot of what was said resonated with me. There was value underneath the hilarity. And it made me wish I had a book of small sagely pieces of advice, that I could call upon when making tough choices.<p>So when @PaulDacus99 meme appeared, that really started to take on the look of what I was after. Internally, I started to compile his thoughts into a "How to: Not Get F*cked [Startup Edition]" type of book. And I really like that idea. Better yet, I wished I owned the book 10 years ago.<p>What can offer?<p>If you have anecdotes of value, whether a coder, business dev, or VC, feel free to share. Please obfuscate and anonymize them. Names really aren't important, just the lessons learned. Ideally these are rooted in the view point of how you personally failed or failed to know, this adds weight to the lesson.<p>If you have mentor's or blogs that you read or talk to that help in your education of making sound career and business decisions, feel free to also voice those. I'll try to build a list from which people can start learning from.<p>If they are concise enough, tweet them to @PaulDacus99, it looks like his meme is taking requests.<p>Hopefully this all makes sense, thanks for reading.