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I think this is the trouble with being an entrepreneur. You are crazy right up until the moment you are proved right. At which point, the idea is ‘obvious to
by tpatke 9y ago
I think this is the trouble with being an entrepreneur. You are crazy right up until the moment you are proved right. At which point, the idea is ‘obvious to everyone’.
Of course, most ideas fail. Most entrepreneurs are just proved crazy.
It is a lonely existence where even other entrepreneurs are unsupportive.
These guys have a nice PR piece on the BBC. That will give them a big temporary boost in traffic. Maybe not so crazy?
- user5994461 9y agoThere are some business which are known to fail miserably. Like, when you want to lend money to open a restaurant in some places, a reputable bank should be able to tell you that xx% of restaurants go bankrupt within the next 2 years.
- collyw 9y agoLike the already saturated social media market. What can a new social network do that can't be done already on Facebook?
- bshimmin 9y ago...or, if it isn't already being done by Facebook, can't be developed and rolled out incredibly quickly to a billion users if they decide that they like what you're doing and want to do it too.