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I think you have acted foolishly and based on your decision you might not be cut out to run a company. The best strategy would have been to develop a business with your free time after work/weekends until you make enough to support you and your family.
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To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context. Is more to ignore the rest of the speech. He goes on to say - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - which doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the…
doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the credit. Yes, he's saying you can't take all the credit, which means that you can't "take credit" for it. Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit." This distinction actually matters. Obama is taking something absolute -- This is my business, these are my profits -- a…
On monday, I start down a new road :)
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>> I have no idea whether or not mental outlook has that effect but we're damning a US senate candidate who said that it did. > I don't think that was quite what he said, if you are referring to Tod Akin. Actually, it was. He said that women who were raped were less likely to concieve. He didn't specify the mechanism, but mental state is the only plausible candidate. Like I said, a huge fraction of the population bel…
Wow. You are one insane waste of skin. By the way, I am neither republican, or democrat, or american for that matter. I just am fascinated by american politics, in much the same way that some people are fascinated by particularly gruesome car crashes.
I note that you didn't point out any errors that I made.
FWIW, I'm pro-abortion.
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This comment has absolutely no place in this thread. This wasn't the appropriate place to inject your politics.
I don't know, it seems fitting to me. If you ignore the current political mess surrounding that (out of context) statement, it's still true. If you reach any kind of success, you'll find people who will say it wasn't you. You got rich off of someone else's work. You had it all handed to you. Or the most common of all, you got lucky . It doesn't matter that you worked hard, or studied, or failed 50 times before. You w…
It's not that it doesn't matter, it's just that hard work isn't enough. Luck does play a big role.
Of course people who come in and try to tell you that it had nothing to do what you did are jerks, but people on the other side try to say that it was all them and had nothing to do with luck (usually right before they blast poor people for not "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps").
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Are you arguing that Einstein invented the atomic bomb in the US because our infrastructre was better than Germany?
Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy. And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.
Hey, I was in a similar boat. I also resigned to start my own thing about a year ago. I had a well paying job in one of the top tech companies. However, I felt unsatisfied with my job responsibilities and disconnected between what I enjoy doing and I was actually doing. Therefore I took a year off (this month marks about 1 year and 2 months off) to work on my own thing/project. With that said, I hope to share some of…
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To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context. Is more to ignore the rest of the speech. He goes on to say - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - which doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the…
doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the credit. Yes, he's saying you can't take all the credit, which means that you can't "take credit" for it. Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit." This distinction actually matters. Obama is taking something absolute -- This is my business, these are my profits -- a…
Which is right. You can't take all the credit. You can take most though.
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Are you arguing that Einstein invented the atomic bomb in the US because our infrastructre was better than Germany?
I think you're looking for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs Then you can brush up on your history ;). http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm
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Are you arguing that Einstein invented the atomic bomb in the US because our infrastructre was better than Germany?
Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy. And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.
How do you account for other advanced economies that have invested more than the US (presumably a cumulative number over the past 50 years, excluding WWII rebuilding investments, per capita) and yet fail to produce the same wealth (again per capita) as the US?
Clearly, other factors outside of individual effort are involved, but I'm sorry, I'm not buying that they are roads and bridges.
In fact, I don't think the X factor is anything the US has intentionally invested in. And I don't think government gets the credit, any more than someone who plays "slop" in pool.
Shit, look at all the so-called startup hubs that are trying to recreate SV via infrastructure investments. Can you show me one that's worked?
Or look at startuplandia: startups choose different cloud hosting services, and as far as I can tell, the particular one you choose (or even the choice to use cloud vs. colo) is not predictive of success.
I don't know... maybe on a national level you have evidence (perhaps a scatterplot of cum infrastructure investment per capita against wealth per capita by country) showing the two are causal (or even correlated), but I have yet to see it. Here's my 2 cents as someone who founded and sold a business for 8 figures:
Businesses succeed or fail because a) founder/exec's intelligence, b) ability to execute, c) luck, d) x-factors-that-government-didn't-build.