Survival: the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. If you want your business to thrive, then you have to learn to survive. After working for 14 years for other entrepreneurs as a software developer, and 6 years as an entrepreneur myself, I’ve seen quite a lot about what can go wrong in business. In this talk, I will tell you a few stories about what I’ve seen, and what I’ve done, while doing my best to survive as both as an employee and as a business owner.