A start-up needs to have an exit to pay back investors. A company that isn’t hoping to exit is just a lifestyle business. Both are valid options, but very different tactically.
Maybe, but all businesses begin as "startups." I guess getting a lot of outside financing is a big deal. Most companies that I know, don't get investors, until they are a going concern. They usually have a bank loan, to start (which can be burdensome).
I used to work for a 100-year-old Japanese corporation. They absolutely refused to go into debt, or seek investors. It could be challenging, getting them to loosen their pursestrings.
But they survived depressions, recessions, and even being bombed in WWII. They had a massive implosion, a few years back, that would have killed most companies (it resulted in me being laid off), but it looks like they are getting their feet under them again.
I guess the problem is what if your competitor does take on that debt, and uses it effectively to put you out of business. Whether the competitor survives much beyond that is immaterial if your company has already closed.
> A start-up needs to have an exit to pay back investors
It depends on the kind of investors you want to attract for your startup. Some investors are interested in building a slow-growth, long-term, stable company, while others prefer a higher-risk approach and will expect fast results. IMHO choosing the right kind of capital is just as important as focusing on the product.
There are rare cases where it's appropriate. Other amphetamines, such as Adderall, activate more norepinephrine at comparable effective dosages, while Desoxyn skews more strongly to just dopamine, which can make Adderall cause more anxiety, bigger heart rate spikes. Adderall also has a different metabolic pathway, which can sometimes mean that Adderall causes problematic side effects that Desoxyn may not.
Still, it's very rare for it to be prescribed because the stigma and related regulatory, insurance, and patient acceptance factors just make it impractical even where it may be appropriate.
Most people would not be able to tell the difference between the two drugs if taken at similar effective dosages and routes of administration. The recreational meth heads you might encounter out in the streets are generally either smoking or injecting it, and at dramatically higher dosages than what would ever be prescribed therapeudically.
I prefer living in the South Bay, but almost all my friends prefer living in SF. I tried living in SF for one year and came running back to Palo Alto. I’d say, just try it.
I suddenly lost the hearing in my left ear at the age of 24. One moment I was fine, eating a slice of pizza, the next moment I suddenly could sense something was wrong. I tried to stand up and walk, but my balance was gone. My ear felt full and there was a strange metallic echo. I waited about 24 hours and it hadn't gone away, so I went to the urgent care. By that time, just standing up was enough to cause me to vomit. I've had a pretty healthy life, so everything that was happening was rather disconcerting to me!
The doctors at urgent care erroneously diagnosed the problem as dehydration as a result of my telling them I had played tennis earlier before the incident. They sent me home with instructions to drink lots of water. After waiting another 48 hours completely unable to hear or even stand up, I went back to the urgent care. This time, they diagnosed it as an ear infection and gave me antibiotics. Over the next two weeks, my balance slowly returned, but what little hearing I still had slowly deteriorated further. About a month after it started, I finally was referred to an audiologist that concluded that I was completely deaf in my left ear, possibly due to a viral infection, but there isn't any way to know for sure the cause. Had it been treated with steroids immediately, it might have saved my hearing.
I am now 40 years old and have lived with being single sided deaf for half my life. Initially I didn't think much of it. I've slowly realized it has had a profound impact on my personality and sense of identity. I am much less social due to the difficulty I have hearing in group settings. Conversations are frustrating because it takes so much effort to hear the other person properly. I am reluctant to tell people about my condition because I don't want to be seen as handicapped in any way. Usually by the time I do end up telling someone, they say they had already figured as much.
Tinnitus is a major daily issue as well. I can’t seem to understand how this website helps though.
My wife is deaf in her left ear as well. She doesn't usually tell people, but does tell people that she likes to walk on the left and sit on the left side of rectangular tables.
One interesting effect is that I have developed a preference for sitting or walking on people's right hand side, especially with good friends or people I respect.
The most interesting effect is I have noticed how much people take for granted the ability to sense where sound is coming from. Early on in our relationship I would occasionally perform "magic tricks" where I know immediately where a sound is. She would ask: how did you know where it was?
> One moment I was fine, eating a slice of pizza, the next moment I suddenly could sense something was wrong. I tried to stand up and walk, but my balance was gone. My ear felt full and there was a strange metallic echo. I waited about 24 hours and it hadn't gone away, so I went to the urgent care. By that time, just standing up was enough to cause me to vomit. I've had a pretty healthy life, so everything that was happening was rather disconcerting to me!
This mirrors what turned out to be the onset of my pulsatile tinnitus – especially the "strange metallic echo". I remember sitting at my desk listening to the radio when I noticed it sounded like the radio's speakers were slightly out of sync with each other. I took my headphones off and listened, and my coworker's voice sounded metallic and robotic, almost exactly like a dalek from Doctor Who.
By the time I got to the doctor (same day), the metallic echo had passed but I had that fullness feeling in my ear that you describe and my doctor couldn't diagnose. Long story short, I'm not completely deaf but I have reduced hearing and permanent pulsatile tinnitus in my right ear.
I've had regular tinnitus since I was a kid, and I've thankfully been able to adjust to hearing the sound of my own heartbeat in my ear at all hours of the day without too much trouble. But when I describe what it's like to friends and family, I like to joke that it's like the heartbeat in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-tale Heart.
> I am now 40 years old and have lived with being single sided deaf for half my life. Initially I didn't think much of it. I've slowly realized it has had a profound impact on my personality and sense of identity. I am much less social due to the difficulty I have hearing in group settings. Conversations are frustrating because it takes so much effort to hear the other person properly.
My reduced hearing has affected me more than I thought it did, and I've only come to realize it very recently. It's difficult for me to help my wife with her birding hobby because I'm always pointing in the wrong direction, for example. It also takes a lot of my patience not to get irritable when she's trying to talk to me while we're watching tv or listening to a book in the car, because I have a hard time tuning out things I can hear in my good ear and focusing on her with my bad ear.
This author is being disingenuous. All of those actions are indeed suspicious. I am not a fan of the Patriot Act, but these new guidelines actually seem pretty reasonable to me.
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