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If professors knew what business ideas would succeed and which would fail then they'd be investing instead of teaching. It's not ideas that succeed or fail, bu
by pg 16y ago
If professors knew what business ideas would succeed and which would fail then they'd be investing instead of teaching.
It's not ideas that succeed or fail, but founders.
- netcan 16y agoIf that is your position (pick founders, not ideas), does this preclude you from picking a future google/microsoft/ etc. except by chance? I am assuming that the really big hits are a consequence of the right idea, right time, and right people.
- pg 16y agoNo. The right people (eventually) find the right idea for the time.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoHow could this statement be anything other than a tautology?
- pg 16y agoBecause it's also claiming that such people exist. I'm not saying P(x) ≡ Q(x), but ∃x P(x) ∧ Q(x).