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I love this mini-essay. The counter to this is that it'll be harder to raise capital for un-fashionable problems. If you pitched "ML for sandwich makers" righ
by nostromo 7y ago
I love this mini-essay.
The counter to this is that it'll be harder to raise capital for un-fashionable problems.
If you pitched "ML for sandwich makers" right now you could raise a million bucks because so many VCs are making fashionable bets on ML.
- StavrosK 7y agoSo what? Raising is not success.
- wwweston 7y agoIt’s pretty successful as failures go.
- StavrosK 7y agoI guess, if you define "success" as "managing to borrow money"...
- Traster 7y agoIt's often a pre-requisite for success. It doesn't matter how good your idea is, if you can't get it implemented and supported by a sales team, support team etc. it isn't going to work. There are brilliant ideas out there, but very few of them are brilliant and require 0 resources to achieve.
- gitgud 7y ago> Raising is not success. People think raising is a signal for success, when it's more like kissing the dice at a casino