&gt;&gt;The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.<p>That is dangerous to any naive person in the world in any area of work. Doing your best, means your boss will look at you like a threat that you might take their job, or some political cartel in a big company will treat you like a pawn who does all their work, while their yes men reap benefits.<p>Start ups are only a area of work where the heart burn is amplified because of a lot of work is done in a very short period of time.