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It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but you seem to have the idea that it's possible to "just succeed." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47UqYMDN
by mikecane 17y ago
It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but you seem to have the idea that it's possible to "just succeed."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47UqYMDN2k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47UqYMDN2k
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3C9SP8xRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3C9SP8xRE
Those who seem to have "just succeeded" are the lucky -- and yes, it is luck -- minority. That's simply not the way things usually work.
- shalmanese 17y agoCompletely the opposite! I'm utterly baffled that I couldn't come up with a counter-example off the top of my head. I thought the "first time founder" phenomena would end up being the minority of cases.
- mikecane 17y agoThen again, you can't call recent startups successes until they've had longevity. Cromemco, Northgate, Osborne, et al. If you pay attention to TV, you can find people who starred in a TV series and then basically disappeared after that. Some of these series didn't even last a season, But when they got the part and were doing it, they probably thought they had succeeded. Did they?