I really thought as an entrepreneur, as a startup, you really cannot spend money like hell without thinking about tomorrow.

我真的认为作为一个企业家，作为一个创业公司，你不能完全不考虑未来就乱花钱。

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We're organized like a startup.

我们就像初创公司一样组织在一起。

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But in a startup, they are hardly fixed.

但是在一个初创企业，他们几乎很难固定。

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I really thought as an entrepreneur, as a startup, you really cannot spend money like hell without thinking about tomorrow.

作为一个创业者，在创业初期,不能随意烧钱而至公司未来于不顾。

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And I actually think it's probably important for anybody who wants to do a startup, anybody who wants to join a place like Microsoft and work on an established or a new product.

实际上我想这对任何想创业的人,来说应该都很重要，任何想加入微软这样的公司,为新老产品工作的人都是这样。

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So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

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