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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 10 MARCH 2006
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've been "about to start the gym" since January. It's October. The gym has…
- When life gives you lemons, it sends the invoice later. With interest.
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
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