Entrepreneurship: hustling and groveling

The risk of carving a startup out of a big company, says one VC in a story in this morning’s NYT , “is that you’re taking on people who haven’t been out there hustling, groveling for a living. They’re not necessarily entrepreneurs.”

Sitting here at 5.30AM waiting for one image server to be revived, I have to smile.

8AM update: Image server Sparrow (our other two are named Cuckoo and Rooster) is flying again.