what it's like at a startup

Sometimes, (not all the time*) being in a new business, like an internet startup is like smashing your forehead onto a spike on your desk every day.  Except it's more like every hour.  And once out of the twenty four times a day, it randomly turns out to be the softest, most comforting, most amazing, welcoming, and most compassionate pillowy landing you could ever imagine in usually a brutal world of brutal brutality.

*the rest of the time it's a grind.  a pure, unadulterated, unrelenting, never ending grind.