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"Go build something people want." I love this post. Although I have no experience with VC's, what he is describing is a phenomenon I see all the time in my ev
by alanthonyc 17y ago
"Go build something people want."
I love this post. Although I have no experience with VC's, what he is describing is a phenomenon I see all the time in my everyday life. I work in IT and there is no shortage of people who have some "great idea" but are unwilling to put in any effort to build it out. They would prefer getting somebody else to do the work for them. Unfortunately for them, the "techie guys" who can actually do the work know the raw deal they would be getting.
The big difference between these run-of-the-mill idea guys and VC is basically the size of their wallet. However, the entitlement (read "lazy") mentality remains the same.
I've even noticed this same phenomenon among some non-IT friends who think that if they could just come up with some brilliant idea, they could retire rich. They would just need somebody else to do the work for them once they found their idea.
- BrandonWatson 17y agoYou bring up a very interesting point, and one of my top rules of things not to do if you want to avoid failing. Don't sit around on the couch talking about the startup you are going to do "someday." People come up with too many excuses not to do something (economy, finances, wife, kids, etc). It's much easier to talk about the way things conspired against you, than to put your nuts on the table and risk failure.
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- alanthonyc 17y agoI would go even further and say that a lot of people prefer to just talk (and complain) about things rather than actually do anything. Pisses me off.
- sutro 17y agoI once tried putting my nuts on the table during a pitch to some VCs. It didn't work out so well.
- BrandonWatson 17y agoI once told a VC (after they intimated that they wanted to replace me as CEO) that it felt like they gave me a nutpunch. The VC didn't understand the phrase, and I actually had to explain it. Years later, it's how they greet me - "hey, nutpuncher!"