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The survey included 5 high growth industries: aerospace, defense, computing, electronics, and health care. For me, personally, the only industry I am concerned

by tpatke 14y ago

The survey included 5 high growth industries: aerospace, defense, computing, electronics, and health care. For me, personally, the only industry I am concerned about is computing. Including datapoints from outside my industry muddies the water. ...making it difficult for me to extract anything useful out of this study. For example, starting an aerospace or defence business might be easy if you have the right contacts - just win a government contract. ...something which is probably more likely to happen for older married men.

davidw 14y ago
Does it really make a difference anyway? If it were 70% for the computer field, would you rush out and marry someone and get her pregnant as soon as possible? Or if it were better to be single, would you sit your wife and kids down and explain to them that to maximize your chances of success, they're being "downsized"?
Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
While there are differences, aren't there also massive similarities? These are largely industries that require skill and talent as much or more than they require physical assets, they're all things where building up experience is likely to have benefits and so on. Looking at what happens in computing is useful, but it feels like we should be saying if someone can be a successful entrepreneur in healthcare under set of circumstances X, why CAN'T someone in that same set of circumstances be successful in IT. We need to be careful not be too insular, not to buy into our own myths (that of the teenage genius founder for instance), and not assume that we're too different or too special, as I don't think those things serve us well.
pkorzeniewski 14y ago
My thoughts exactly, if we would focus only on computing industry than I'm pretty sure the avarage age would be much lower, and because the avarage age of getting married is near 30 (at least in US), the number of married entrepreneurs, let alone with children, would be also significantly lower. Another thing is that industries such as aerospace or electronics are much harder to break through, you need much much more experience, and the knowledge isn't as easily obtainable as for computing.

by tpatke 14y ago

davidw 14y ago

Does it really make a difference anyway? If it were 70% for the computer field, would you rush out and marry someone and get her pregnant as soon as possible? Or if it were better to be single, would you sit your wife and kids down and explain to them that to maximize your chances of success, they're being "downsized"?

Tyrannosaurs 14y ago

While there are differences, aren't there also massive similarities? These are largely industries that require skill and talent as much or more than they require physical assets, they're all things where building up experience is likely to have benefits and so on. Looking at what happens in computing is useful, but it feels like we should be saying if someone can be a successful entrepreneur in healthcare under set of circumstances X, why CAN'T someone in that same set of circumstances be successful in IT. We need to be careful not be too insular, not to buy into our own myths (that of the teenage genius founder for instance), and not assume that we're too different or too special, as I don't think those things serve us well.

pkorzeniewski 14y ago

My thoughts exactly, if we would focus only on computing industry than I'm pretty sure the avarage age would be much lower, and because the avarage age of getting married is near 30 (at least in US), the number of married entrepreneurs, let alone with children, would be also significantly lower. Another thing is that industries such as aerospace or electronics are much harder to break through, you need much much more experience, and the knowledge isn't as easily obtainable as for computing.