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I think entrepreneurship is more of a mindset where you liberate yourself from the wage constraint and take control of your life by directly producing value for
by Jacqued 12y ago
I think entrepreneurship is more of a mindset where you liberate yourself from the wage constraint and take control of your life by directly producing value for others.
Changing the world and being worth billions is just the Silicon Valley mythology, but that is not the only 'real' form of entrepreneurship there is.
Dare I say, a small business owner is more of an entrepreneur in my opinion than some wealthy dude who made an app, raised 5 mil, and ran the company into the ground in 12 months.
Now startups are great, but I really don't get the contempt the startup-types hold for small businesses. Maybe that's just a form of class contempt.
- sambe 12y agoI like your perspective and agree the 0.1% of glamorous tech startups do not define the whole word. I think though that more people lean towards a concept of risk-taking and innovation (me too). I guess my hypotheses are: a) HN will mostly lean this way too; b) America will mostly lean this way (but I have not lived there); c) if you accept this definition, European business are on average less of this style than American ones (due to government mitigating their risk or them being in established segments) in some - but definitely not all - cases. You are of course free not to accept the definition ;) and I could be wrong about what the majority of HN readers/Americans think. If I'm not, the Atlantic - an American magazine with mostly American readership - is being a bit unrepresentative. As others have said, even if I'm wrong the conclusions seem a little strong for the evidence.