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plenty of companies got started more than 20 years ago. What would have prevented you from starting a company when MS or Apple started?
by cstejerean 19y ago
plenty of companies got started more than 20 years ago. What would have prevented you from starting a company when MS or Apple started?
- edw519 19y agoHaving a grandfather worth $20 million. Seriously, don't kid yourself. It was a VERY DIFFERENT world back then. You graduated college and hoped you could find a job. There was no www and you needed 5 to 10 grand just for hardware and proprietary software. It's utterly stunning how easy it is to get started today compared to then. (Bill Gates and Paul Allen went to the private Lakeside School which had a privately donated PDP-11 in 1968. Imagine being 13 years old and having access to the same computing power as Stanford University. The other 99.99% of us had to wait another 10 years for access to a computer.)
- amichail 19y agoSoftware was a lot harder to write when I was in high school. Also, entrepreneurship wasn't encouraged.
- cstejerean 19y agoWhich means there was a lot less competition.
- DocSavage 19y agoMindset and almost no open source + internet/Arpanet infrastructure. (Internet changes marketing and distribution to the advantage of young entrepreneurs.) Twenty years ago, kids didn't have a long list of successful role models who made it big while young. Now, that's all you see in the media.
- angstrom 19y agoLack of physical existence for one.