Why Should I Start a Startup?

Re:Why Should I Start a Startup? by tristanho on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:07PM (#14806964)

Loved this post, thanks! You mentioned the 3 constraints under which you (and many founders) thrive in:

* Being the underdog

* Hard challenges most people shy away from

* Personal responsibility for outcomes

Why are some people best under those conditions? Is it something trainable, or inherent?

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Re:Why Should I Start a Startup? by mwseibel on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:22PM (#14808852)

No idea - maybe another way to think about it is im really bad when these constraints aren't in place

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Re:Why Should I Start a Startup? by BjoernKW on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:46PM (#14807311)

I'd say most people would be. If you don't take responsibility and if you're not challenged, you can hardly expect to excel at anything.

Many people either are too comfortable with their lives or are in too precarious a situation to ever get to try.

That's probably also why we so rarely hear about rich kids with large trust funds accomplishing anything meaningful.

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Re:Why Should I Start a Startup? by MaxfordAndSons on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:06PM (#14809780)

> That's probably also why we so rarely hear about rich kids with large trust funds accomplishing anything meaningful.

Interesting theory... but could perhaps be due to reporting bias? The trust funded who do succeed are unlikely to highlight that fact when telling the story of their success.

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