What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
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What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
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Re: What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
#2"I've learned something that utterly astonished me when I first recognized it: with rare exceptions, entrepreneurs in general are not curious people."
I have met hundreds of entrepreneurs at Bootstrappers Breakfasts over the last years and this description and taxonomy bears no relationship to my experience.
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#3"I've learned something that utterly astonished me when I first recognized it: with rare exceptions, entrepreneurs in general are not curious people." I have met hundreds of entrepreneurs at Bootstrappers Breakfasts over the last years and this description and taxonomy bears no relationship to my experience.
I haven't met as many as you have, but the ones I have worked for have mostly been bored trust-fund kids whose only motivation is to have something to brag about.
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#4Perhaps it depends on who you're labeling as "entrepreneur"
Re: What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
#5"I've learned something that utterly astonished me when I first recognized it: with rare exceptions, entrepreneurs in general are not curious people." I have met hundreds of entrepreneurs at Bootstrappers Breakfasts over the last years and this description and taxonomy bears no relationship to my experience.
I'm not super familiar with Bootstrappers Breakfast but it seems like it would be pretty self selecting. I think tech can be a bit of a bubble, and he could just as well be talking about the owner of the local jet-ski dealership.
There is a massive audience for "grindset" content that has imo has very little curiosity to it outside of ways of acquiring wealth, I think that may be some level of evidence for his argument.
Even more anecdotally, when I scroll LinkedIn I constantly see extremely successful people making posts that massively simplify complex and interesting topics into painfully one-dimensional problems with easy answers. Some of that is definitely politically driven but either way its those people that I thought of while reading the piece.
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#6"I've learned something that utterly astonished me when I first recognized it: with rare exceptions, entrepreneurs in general are not curious people." I have met hundreds of entrepreneurs at Bootstrappers Breakfasts over the last years and this description and taxonomy bears no relationship to my experience.
I'm not super familiar with Bootstrappers Breakfast but it seems like it would be pretty self selecting. I think tech can be a bit of a bubble, and he could just as well be talking about the owner of the local jet-ski dealership. There is a massive audience for "grindset" content that has imo has very little curiosity to it outside of ways of acquiring wealth, I think that may be some level of evidence for his argume…
Looking at "entrepreneur porn" for insight into entrepreneurship works about as well as using porn as a guideline for a satisfying romantic relationship or marriage.
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#7"I've learned something that utterly astonished me when I first recognized it: with rare exceptions, entrepreneurs in general are not curious people." I have met hundreds of entrepreneurs at Bootstrappers Breakfasts over the last years and this description and taxonomy bears no relationship to my experience.
I haven't met as many as you have, but the ones I have worked for have mostly been bored trust-fund kids whose only motivation is to have something to brag about.
There may be a self-selection filter at work driving whom you are meeting--you may not be aware of it. That being said the promise of the Bootstrappers Breakfast is to join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast in a serious conversation.
We don't attract a lot of the "make money while you sleep" or "four hour work week" folks--but I don't consider them entrepreneurs. I think there are two critical elements of an an entrepreneurial disposition:
1. Commit to the exchange of value for value, of quid pro quo. This does not preclude acts of generosity and kindness.
2. Cultivate the capability to take prudent risks to explore and learn. It embeds the realization that failure is a real possibility and a plan that anticipates how to survive a sequence of small failures (of “affordable losses”) is far preferable to incurring a substantial loss that bankrupts you.
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#8What a shitty post. 41 lines of shit.
Like "entrepreneurs" (whatever the author makes as a definition) are fundamentally not "regular people" (whatever the author etc.). What kings can learn from peons ? Everything, kings know nothing and rely on other people to do everything. They only have the means (the money) to motivate them.
Shit we all lost 5mn.
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#9I got to be honest, this whole thing of the 'founders' persona is utter bull. I have met many, and know many very well and they tend to be all sorts.
Re: What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
#10Perhaps it depends on who you're labeling as "entrepreneur"
or "regular people"?