On this, our nation’s birthday, I look back upon the framers of our Constitution, those proud members of the Continental Congress, and think: our Founding Fathers had some serious cojones.

I mean it. Huevos gigantes. Because I look at the process of starting a company – the terrifying difficulty of getting going in the first place, the utterly overwhelming process of faking everything on the fly, of coming up with answers as you go along, writing and re-writing the rules of how it all works – and I think, if that’s how hard it is to start a company, what must it be like to start a country?

So, from one entrepreneur to another, each July 4th, I toast wholeheartedly the Founding Fathers. Despite its flaws, as startups go, their whole ‘United States ‘ thing could have turned out a hell of a lot worse.