The Lifestyle Thing, Is It a Good Idea for Singles?

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When you start out with something like this in the same way that you want to avoid adding costs in the business, I think you get to a point of independence from needing a job. If you actually keep your own lifestyle relatively frugal, like then it needs to be generating that much less revenue before it can become full time. The faster you can get out of this kind of like doing two things at one thing, the better for sure.

This is the story of Stratechery, presented with much sheepishness on Ben’s part. How Ben thought about the market, his business model, and more. We apologize that this is a little long and perhaps a bit choppy. It’s hard to talk about us!

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Andrew Sullivan: A Note to my Readers – The Dish
Ezra Klein: What Andrew Sullivan’s Exit Says About the Future of Blogging – Vox
Ben Thompson: Blogging’s Bright Future – Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Dear Zoë Keating: Tell YouTube to Take a Hike – Stratechery
Taylor Swift: For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music is a Love Story – Wall Street Journal

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