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Passion without genuine skill and knowledge is useless. You can be passionate about many things, for example cars, but unless you put in the hours, your passion
by FreedomToCreate 10y ago
Passion without genuine skill and knowledge is useless. You can be passionate about many things, for example cars, but unless you put in the hours, your passion doesn't mean you will be a great car engineer, or automotive company executive.
[EDIT] Also want to add that people grossly underestimate the responsibility of being their own boss. There are a lot of tasks you have to handle outside of your usual work like finances, scheduling, client outreach, etc...
The OP seemed to understand this, but a lot of people will create a start-up for the sake of being on the creating end of something without really knowing how practical their venture really is.
Paul Grahm may disagree though.
- ben_jones 10y agoI think of this every time I come across one of those motivation videos on youtube. It'll have like twenty million views, how many of those people actually took it to heart?
- babuskov 10y agoNodding your head to such video is easy. Actually doing it takes way more effort. Although, I think those millions of views come from people who were lured into watching those by smart marketing message that basically laid out their problem(s) and promised it can be solved "with one simple trick". Number of views only shows that many people share the same problem.
- spdionis 10y agoWhich reminds me of TED talks which are pinnacle of "fakeness" and bullshit in our society. Well, most of them at least.
- zippy786 10y agoCouldn't agree more. Just selling the "Wow" factor. In reality, most talks are baseless, same with startups. Some do manage to make millions just by selling the "Wowness". A whale buys the product and dumps it.
- yardie 10y agoThere are lots of startups that I considered dumb. A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are. In trying to start my own business I'm still learning to get over my own self doubt.
- rev_bird 10y ago> A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. It made a lot more sense when we used SMS to tweet.
- yardie 10y agoIt made sense at the time, and most people probably weren't around when you could tweet by SMS, but almost 10 years later we're still working with this imposed limit. And doing it well.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are. A world in which such a service is a billion-dolar business is a world which's aggregate business method is to throw random shit at the wall and see what sticks. In other words, success in startups is a lottery. I hope I cheered you up. :).
- mikestew 10y agoThere are lots of startups that I considered dumb And in the vast majority of cases you were right. A parallel comment pointed out that it's a lottery. I don't even think that's true, as with the lottery I know exactly what the odds are. Odds on some random startup "...only for dogs, on the Internet"? Fuck if I know.