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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner.

Sacrifice your health for your startup — You’ve heard about the importance of a work/life balance, but if you’re an entrepreneur, those rules often don’t apply. Startups are demanding beasts, notes angel investor Jason Cohen, and if you’re not completely obsessed with your company in its early days — often at the risk of your own health — your odds of success may be lower.

Killing innovation with corner cases — It’s good to think ahead, but focusing too much on the future and remote probabilities can kill innovation. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank discusses how corner case thinking can bog down a startup.

You’ve been hacked. Now what? – The first 48 hours are critical after your retail site is compromised by hackers. Chris Drake, CEO and founder of FireHost, gives you a to-do list to get back online and quickly restore customer confidence.

Moore’s Law beats customer feedback — Ignoring your customers doesn’t sound like a successful way to run a business, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang notes that by doing just that — and trusting in Moore’s Law (which basically says tech performance will double every year), the graphics company was able to survive and thrive.

The startup chronicles: Who is invested in your success? — Startups face a variety of challenges on a day-to-day basis. This new weekly feature on EC gives an inside view of life at a bootstrapped startup. This week: Forming an ecosystem.

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