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Swombat.com is no longer actively maintained, but all the posts here are still available for your use. The original objective was to regularly summarise and comment on the best articles for founders each day, as well as occasionally post our my own thoughts and advice, so that you could read the most useful articles while focusing on building your own startup. As most of the articles in the founders library were selected to be "evergreens", I hope you still find them useful!
A startup's job is to grow big enough to provide a return to investors. A lifestyle business's job is to provide a great quality of life to its owners.
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The real question to me is, what do you want from your business, both in the short- and long-term?
It's worth adding that you're allowed to change what you want throughout your life. Be sure to re-examine the question regularly to make sure you're not chasing life goals that you no longer care about.
