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Unfortunately this is the "dark side" of entrepreneurship, and people show be made more aware of it. We all love to open HN and read the new PG essay and dream
by newbie578 6y ago
Unfortunately this is the "dark side" of entrepreneurship, and people show be made more aware of it.
We all love to open HN and read the new PG essay and dream "I am the one", but the odds are not in our favor.
The extreme survivorship bias also doesn't help.
But honestly, I don't know what the ideal solution is.
Even though I read stories like these, hear all about how the odds are stacked against, how difficult and hard it can be, I keep wondering a simple "What if?".
I guess you could say that there can be a 100 reasons not to do something, and yet one good reason why is more than enough to offset the 100 bad ones.
- officehero 6y agoI think one also has to be a little bit "crazy"/"idealistic" as a person to be a real entrepreneur. As a realist (coder) in a tiny startup I know I could never run it like my CEO. He may not be the smartest guy but man does he have belief in the idea. If I were in his shoes I would have given up 1 year ago and bankrupted, but he kept investing his own money and now he might actually get it sold for big cash.