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Re:How We Kill Geniuses by bayareaguy on Saturday February 07, 2009 @07:48AM (#471091)
entrepreneurship is killing genius

I upmodded you because I think your post is worthwhile but I think you're conflating entreprenurship with short-sighted greed.

Entrepreneurship and genius are just different aspects of the same thing: solving problems in new ways, more often than not by challenging the percieved rules of the game.

Re:How We Kill Geniuses by jballanc on Saturday February 07, 2009 @10:46AM (#471180)
I realized only later that my statement needed an extra qualification: entrepreneurship is killing (non-entrepreneurship related) genius

Certainly Ron Popeil is some kind of genius...George Foreman too. But I'd challenge anyone to hand me a business model that could be formed around General Relativity! If we had demanded a business plan from Einstein before we let him continue working on his ideas, he'd probably have died a patent clerk.

Re:How We Kill Geniuses by zandorg on Saturday February 07, 2009 @12:16PM (#471256)
I'll mention his refrigerator, and the atomb bomb was surely worth money.