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Operating & Owning a Business

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Jul 17, 2020
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Apart from the fact that I wasn’t quite sure what the phrase “A hill I”ll die on” meant (apparently: “defend to the death”), this tweet from Michael Girdley, an American venture capitalist and prolific tweeter (@mgirdley) has had me ruminating all week. Is it true? And does it apply to me?

Let me try and deconstruct this as it contains several valuable p…

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