On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, David Boyd wrote: > It seems to me that your idea of an entrepreneur is someone who has > planned out every stage of their business life. If you talk with > investment companies about capital for funding a business you will find > that the majority of qualified investors (people who have more than 5 > million dollars of liquid assets targeted for investment purposes and > were not born with it) made that money on what is called serendipitous > activity, or un-planned business activities. If true this typically > means that people made the most money by involving themselves in > activities that had little to do with their core competencies. In fact > most business creation of new technologies or ideas don't come because > of the knowledge you have, but in your ability to leverage knowledge > from areas that you do have into a money making idea that fit into the > current business needs. Sort of kind of. :)
a) You don't fail because you planned to fail - you fail because you failed to plan. b) I'd like to see the source of that statistics above. I maintain that if you lack the capital and lack core competency, you are destined to fail. Sure, serendipitous investing works if you have enough cash - aka "first 20M$ is always the hard ones", and you can hire people who do know what they are doing. > The point that you make about lurking until you have more knowledge and > not posting would seem to be an oxymoron since without asking questions > you typically don't learn. So very wrong. You can and do learn quite a lot by listening to smart people talk. -alex _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
