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On average, chances are pretty low that a particular startup will ever make even a hundred thousand dollars, so stop starting new companies! It's not for eithe
by raylu 13y ago
On average, chances are pretty low that a particular startup will ever make even a hundred thousand dollars, so stop starting new companies!
It's not for either your investors or your customers to tell you what to build anyway.
And just never talk about morals, which I deem "fluff".
- IsaacL 13y agoI read it the opposite way - your chances of having a big impact are low, so stop worrying and start a company anyway. This might sound paradoxical, but for a lot of people (myself included) being told "don't waste your time on something trivial" can be paralysing. You end up questioning every idea and never being able to settle on one. You can (and should) get a sense of which ideas are worthwhile, but you'll never know for sure. Maybe your potential cure for cancer won't work. Maybe your todo list app will help 100 medical non-profits each be 5% more efficient, in effect having 5 non-profit's worth of impact. With that in mind, the best you can do is pick something that you can probably make work, that people probably want, and that will probably have a positive impact on society. Whether or not you change the world is up to the gods.
- raylu 13y ago> Whether or not you change the world is up to the gods. No. Take some responsibility (and therefore, credit) for your actions.