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I used to joke I was a "venture socialist" -- I wanted to be a writer, but that felt wrong since I was a first generation PhD dropout.

I never worked directly for one, just 1099 but in general I'd suggest trying to run a startup like a small business.

(I've seen a LOT of small businesses rise and fall, often as I was sitting in them overtipping the poor workers stuck in the muck)

I'd suggest looking at the profiles of founders on places like Wikipedia -- then search out the names of the companies whose names you do not recognize.

Then suss out why the company failed -- was it a bad idea? Were they ratfucked by someone with worse technology but better... connections?

Have you seen that Silicon Valley scene where the guy shouts no revenue?

Be the opposite of that guy.

Be socially libertarian in the sense of hiring skilled, kind people... but also be as stingy as the types who used to invade my personal space and say "Reagan" whenever you didn't sufficiently name drop someone from their personality cult.

That means things like wanting to increase revenue, decrease bandwidth.

(I see so many people using these elaborate frameworks to make flashy sites for bullshit startups, rather than a clean and pretty plain static site. Vi not emacs, XFCE not Knome or KDE... income early rather than forever hitting up the Saudis... that kind of thing)

Anyways... TLDR: Look up the failings that came before a site like say... Facebook... both in terms of rivals and previous company attempts by the founders.

This will impact the effectiveness and accuracy of outbound traffic filtering

Can you prove this is bad? Not trolling, sincerely concerned we're renavigating discussions that date back to when Ethereal became Wireshark and folks got grumpy they'd have to plug a PSK in to look at things -- often because they were looking at things they had no warrant or cause to examine, paired with inept analysts who'd be stymied by something as simple as Asking Jeeves how to plug said password in to view the traffic as if it was clear.

Does it ever make sense to do graduate school just to get by?

most people who do them are coerced -- i made about as much as my pizza delivery driver. i attempted it because it seemed a way to become financially independent. instead, when i tried to leave with a masters i was forced to eventually return to my homeland and be subjected to the same things that drove me from it.