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Little luck is needed. All that is needed is a gap in the market, a human problem to be solved that people are willing to pay enough money for and it will be le

Little luck is needed. All that is needed is a gap in the market, a human problem to be solved that people are willing to pay enough money for and it will be leveraged. Luck his nothing to do with it... except for the luck of being gifted with the right mindset to be able to pull it off.

marssaxman 12y ago
The luck is in having the resources necessary to apply the idea. Many people can identify a gap in the market which could form a profitable business, but in order to actually build that business you need capital and connections.
- balabaster 12y ago
  Or the ability to make those connections to get the capital. All the stepping stones are there offering many paths to success, you just have to be willing to do the leg work to get from one to the next.
  - marssaxman 12y ago
    These "stepping stones" are not equally distributed, and not every jump will succeed. It is not reasonable to ignore the role of external factors in the practicality of achieving success.
- balabaster 12y ago
  also, having resources and being resourceful are 2 different things. Someone who is resourceful will find the resources. Someone who is not resourceful will settle with the excuses that they didn't have the resources.
  - marssaxman 12y ago
    Perhaps so, but lifetimes are not infinite. Even if every resource is theoretically acquirable by every person, what for some people would just be a trivial first step toward the ultimate goal would count for other people as a lifetime task in itself.
brianpan 12y ago
I don't see how it's not mostly luck. Being gifted with the right mindset is not a small exception. That's pretty huge. Of a hundred million babies born this year, they do NOT all have the same chance of becoming a billionaire. That's luck.
mruniverse 12y ago
Seems like luck is most of it. Luck to be born at this time, in a country with some freedom, to be healthy enough, etc.

marssaxman 12y ago

The luck is in having the resources necessary to apply the idea. Many people can identify a gap in the market which could form a profitable business, but in order to actually build that business you need capital and connections.

balabaster 12y ago
Or the ability to make those connections to get the capital. All the stepping stones are there offering many paths to success, you just have to be willing to do the leg work to get from one to the next.
- marssaxman 12y ago
  These "stepping stones" are not equally distributed, and not every jump will succeed. It is not reasonable to ignore the role of external factors in the practicality of achieving success.
balabaster 12y ago
also, having resources and being resourceful are 2 different things. Someone who is resourceful will find the resources. Someone who is not resourceful will settle with the excuses that they didn't have the resources.
- marssaxman 12y ago
  Perhaps so, but lifetimes are not infinite. Even if every resource is theoretically acquirable by every person, what for some people would just be a trivial first step toward the ultimate goal would count for other people as a lifetime task in itself.

brianpan 12y ago

I don't see how it's not mostly luck. Being gifted with the right mindset is not a small exception. That's pretty huge. Of a hundred million babies born this year, they do NOT all have the same chance of becoming a billionaire. That's luck.

mruniverse 12y ago

Seems like luck is most of it. Luck to be born at this time, in a country with some freedom, to be healthy enough, etc.