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Ask any of a thousand startups gone dark -- tons of people try. Many fail. You lose your time and your personal investment. Ask me how I know (hint: 3yr full time co-founder)

If you make it somehow, you have the benefit of deducting your R&D against profits, which seems fair to me...Except then people get upset (see comments on this page) that you "aren't paying your fair share of taxes."

This seems ludicrous given how many years startups spend burning their own money to hope to reach the point Netflix has reached. Good for Netflix.



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