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Re:You will fail by DanielBMarkham on Saturday January 02, 2010 @04:35PM (#1027691)
The article basically claims it's all luck in the case of a start-up

Er no it doesn't. I wrote it.

The point is that knowledge and skills are incremental, not pivotal. Startups are like baseball -- you play the numbers. Every time-at-bat isn't a home run, no matter how many skills you have. But if you take that to mean you shouldn't work on your batting skill then you've read something in there that I never intended.

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