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On the difference between the industrial and academic mindset, as typified by punctuation marks.

Expect failures and embrace them. Fully automate your infrastructure deployments. Design your infrastructure so that it scales horizontally. Establish clear measurable goals -- for example, response time. Be prepared to quickly identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Then play whack-a-mole for a while, until things get stable.

How do you know what ideas will work? How can people try a lot of ideas without bankrupting themselves or running themselves ragged?

Supporting a family in NYC or Silicon Valley is insanely expensive especially for someone who has no cushion to fall back on during the months when funding is tight. (Which is a major reason you see lots of Silicon Valley startups from twentysomething men with no expenses and few startups from women with kids, and heated discussion on TechCrunch about salaries for founders who can't make ends meet.)