This is a guest post by Julia Plevin, a VentureBeat contributor and a ‘marketing maven’ at Luvocracy.
There’s a widely held belief that startups are fun places to work and all employees become overnight millionaires. But once you get over some of the perks –- like free snacks and no meetings before 10 a.m. –- it becomes clear that startups are actually a grind.
And for every Instagram or Airbnb that seems to materialize out of thin air, there’s tons more startups that trudge along slowly. In fact, the median time from initial VC investment to IPO is 10 years. That leaves a lot of time for workplace politics, blunders, boredom, and mistakes.
To read the full, original article click on this link: How to stay happy at a startup | VentureBeat
