>Entrepreneurs need to remember that we are supposed to live on the cliff between science fiction and science fact. I really do not agree that entrepreneurs ar

>Entrepreneurs need to remember that we are supposed to live on the cliff between science fiction and science fact. I really do not agree that entrepreneurs are the ones who are obligated to push humanity forward. Time and time again I have seen article after article, and person after person, conflate the ideas of innovation/invention and business/startups. Businesses just make money. That's it. You do whatever it takes to make money. I mean, Nokia sold rubber tires at one point. An invention can power a company that is built 'on top' of it (e.g. Edison getting invested in after he invented the lightbulb, Larry and Sergei creating Google after they completed their research in Search Algorithms), but just because some inventors were also entrepreneurs does not create an automatic equivalence between the two. A lot of innovation and invention came from government sponsored projects and those have benefited society just as much. Maybe it is time we started to approach growing world problems with a broader viewpoint than just "Solve it with a startup (or an app)"? Maybe it's time we used our intellectual forum to discuss real solutions to real problems.