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FRIDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2004
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
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- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
- You don't have a type. You have a pattern. Your friends have a group…
- Make your money work for you. Yours quit in 2019. It works for your…
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