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#2Prof - "C-, would not work in the real work"
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#3Prof - "C-, would not work in the real work"
Wikipedia:
"his professor told him that, in order for him to get a C, the idea had to be feasible"
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#4I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data".
The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers.
The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit.
No one is saying, "build your career, work hard and learn a lot, become really good at things, and get rich slowly." (In part, that's because venture capitalists hate the idea of a 15-50% per year growth company.) Instead, it's the "you could be a winner!" Tappy Tibbons nonsense.
Normally, this would just be a new generation of the same damn fraud that has always existed. However, given the perverted culture of age discrimination (chickenhawking) in the contemporary Valley it has become apparent that a whole culture has fallen for this "get rich quick, or you're a loser" nonsense and the massive wad of impractical, life-wrecking advice that comes with it.
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#5I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data". The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers. The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit. No one is saying, "build your career,…
Meh. This guy did well, and I thought the post was cute. You should try yoga, I think.
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#6I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data". The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers. The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit. No one is saying, "build your career,…
Who is saying that this is data? It's just an inspiring little anecdote. Even if he hadn't sold his company the time spent hustling to get it started might still have been more valuable than getting A's on those article summaries.
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#7I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data". The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers. The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit. No one is saying, "build your career,…
You seem really unnecessarily angry. Not every single post that has to do with a VC or a startup doing well needs a grandstanding "this is horseshit; vc's are bloodsucking vampires; stupid kids get off my lawn" type of response.
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#9Prof - "C-, would not work in the real work"
Wikipedia: "his professor told him that, in order for him to get a C, the idea had to be feasible"
I had to do some searching to get the context here, so for anyone else similarly confused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith
This (apocryphal) quote is attributed to Frederick Smith, who described an overnight shipping company as part of a paper for an economics class at Yale. He later ended up founding FedEx.
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#10I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data". The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers. The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit. No one is saying, "build your career,…
The discovery of the Higgs Boson was based on a 5-sigma outlier if my memory serves correctly.