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I think you meant "but don't try to fly people to Mars". I'm mostly leaf reading, but it seems to me you are recommending a lean startup / lifestyle business a
by ovi256 14y ago
I think you meant "but don't try to fly people to Mars".
I'm mostly leaf reading, but it seems to me you are recommending a lean startup / lifestyle business as a first startup. A less ambitious endeavour than say, Google or Amazon, with the primary goal of acquiring skills, small but safer revenue, a stepping stone to the next, bigger, enterprise. Very inspiring, and something young engineers should think about.
BTW, I restate my request from my unsolicited email (hope you don't mind): please share some startup ideas, even if execution is everything, some of us younger, less experienced engineers find brainstorming and finding ideas harder, and would really appreciate some inspiration.
- bfe 14y agoGoogle started as an umpteenth search company on cheap machines and offered to sell out for one million, and Amazon started just by selling books from a website with buggy tech and workers kneeling on the floor to package the books. They both started at an easily accessible entry point too. But they each had a feasible path from humble to world-changing in a way that Elon maybe didn't going from online media and payments through a step function into disrupting transportation energy and yanking humanity into a spacefaring civilization. Even with, he was learning to get better at the game as he went along, and laying the foundation for SpaceX at the level of asking the rich questions, making the connections, and digging hard for elusive answers while he was still at x.com/PayPal. You probably always have to go through the foundation of exploring for the right questions to explore, to emerge with a meaningful advantage.
- gaborcselle 14y agoOh yes, I did mean the negative - thanks for the correction. Responded to your email too.