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There are ups and downs in any job and a lot of grinding no matter what profession it is. Even passions like music takes A LOT of effort - and one must be lucky, great and work very hard to make a breakthrough.

Like Peter Norvig wrote in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years": one should not really strive to become an expert or successful at something in 10 days, but 10 years. I think the same can be said about startups, i.e. look on the long-term goal and not the short-term one.



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