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Sounds like a lot of opportunity for success to me (all your competitors have clueless management). What stops someone from disrupting all these clueless peopl

Sounds like a lot of opportunity for success to me (all your competitors have clueless management). What stops someone from disrupting all these clueless people? Just money?

riffraff 16y ago
6 or seven years ago I had a conversation with a guy at a meeting of rubyists in rome, and while I was telling him how bad it is in italy and bla bla he replied to me "well, it means there is a lot of space to do things better, it is a great market opportunity". The same guy later went on to found his own company, which is doing cool stuff, with great people, and with more work than they can handle, still in that same country.
crocowhile 16y ago
The problem is that the clueless people are literally leading the country and that makes everything difficult. When I say that I wish a nuke I am obviously exhagerating, but I am not when I say that I wish a civil revolution. The job market is a mess because the job market regulation is a mess. Finances are a mess because tax regulations is a mess: 50% for some people and 0% for others (tax fraud is easy peasy for certain professions). Culturally we are sinking since universities are regulated like in a third word country and most academics never even published a paper in all their lifes. Technically, if you had private money you could start an Italian Ycombinator and get return because it's full of talents. Yet, your return will be better if you were to do the same in most other countries so why bother?
- loewenskind 16y ago
  >Yet, your return will be better if you were to do the same in most other countries so why bother? Well, with something like YC sure, but anything else you might bother because it's the country you grow up and you know it well. Also because any of those countries that are easier to do will also have more, tougher competition.

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Sounds like a lot of opportunity for success to me (all your competitors have clueless management). What stops someone from disrupting all these clueless peopl

by loewenskind 16y ago

Sounds like a lot of opportunity for success to me (all your competitors have clueless management). What stops someone from disrupting all these clueless people? Just money?

riffraff 16y ago
6 or seven years ago I had a conversation with a guy at a meeting of rubyists in rome, and while I was telling him how bad it is in italy and bla bla he replied to me "well, it means there is a lot of space to do things better, it is a great market opportunity". The same guy later went on to found his own company, which is doing cool stuff, with great people, and with more work than they can handle, still in that same country.
crocowhile 16y ago
The problem is that the clueless people are literally leading the country and that makes everything difficult. When I say that I wish a nuke I am obviously exhagerating, but I am not when I say that I wish a civil revolution. The job market is a mess because the job market regulation is a mess. Finances are a mess because tax regulations is a mess: 50% for some people and 0% for others (tax fraud is easy peasy for certain professions). Culturally we are sinking since universities are regulated like in a third word country and most academics never even published a paper in all their lifes. Technically, if you had private money you could start an Italian Ycombinator and get return because it's full of talents. Yet, your return will be better if you were to do the same in most other countries so why bother?
- loewenskind 16y ago
  >Yet, your return will be better if you were to do the same in most other countries so why bother? Well, with something like YC sure, but anything else you might bother because it's the country you grow up and you know it well. Also because any of those countries that are easier to do will also have more, tougher competition.