I live in Germany and I can't move to the valley easily (will investigate on "work visa" and I will take part in the green card lottery over the next couple of

I live in Germany and I can't move to the valley easily (will investigate on "work visa" and I will take part in the green card lottery over the next couple of years :) But even if I make it to SV, nothing ever relieves you from thinking really hard constantly (and informing yourself). There are so many influencing factors and the article is great, but I can also see that people tend to overestimate themselves (including me). Thought exchange is key and you'll find people you can do that with, e.g. in College. Ryan Dahl did node in Germany and he was exchanging thoughts with someone who was just (only) listening and giving him (sanity) feedback. So though exchange may or is also very valuable (from someone) when you have a genius idea. College or university can also be an accelerator and maybe you'd consider joining to actually have a lot of spare time to do the next Facebook by exploiting it's context (e.g. people). And think of the big ones: They dropped out of college (when they were successful)! We are always having (very) limited knowledge and there usually is (always) a high risk. If Google or Apple just decides to do cars this may wipe out all car manufactures in the rest of the world, since for some reason they seem to be just able to do so.