Re:Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
by mbesto on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @10:24AM
(#2193123)
Only Steve knows why he wrote this post so I can only speculate.
What I speculate is that he was trying to draw attention to the issue, for people who care about entrepreneurship, without actively going and trying to change it. He makes a very important point "there is no strategy" and in fact represents why many start-ups fail today. In a way I think he is saying "This start-up organization itself doesn't follow the guidelines that it's trying to promote". It's essentially like another model for a business school MBA, which arguably isn't always the absolute path to new company creation.
The only thing I think a government can do in this situation is to continue to provide a system for failure tolerance. This is America's greatest strength.
What I speculate is that he was trying to draw attention to the issue, for people who care about entrepreneurship, without actively going and trying to change it. He makes a very important point "there is no strategy" and in fact represents why many start-ups fail today. In a way I think he is saying "This start-up organization itself doesn't follow the guidelines that it's trying to promote". It's essentially like another model for a business school MBA, which arguably isn't always the absolute path to new company creation.
The only thing I think a government can do in this situation is to continue to provide a system for failure tolerance. This is America's greatest strength.