Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by dshah on Monday September 21, 2009 @11:48AM
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This is now fixed (was not paying enough attention and it was too early on a Monday).
Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by scotty79 on Monday September 21, 2009 @11:53AM
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Surely this can't be sole reason for all occurences of this effect on the interenet (and even in books). ;-)
Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by dshah on Monday September 21, 2009 @12:15PM
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You're right. That's not the sole reason. The primary reason is that originality is a relatively high bar -- particularly for the Internet.
Just look at Twitter. So many tweets are retweets of what someone else said.
Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by scotty79 on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:00PM
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That's not the point. I am not talking about lack of originality. I am talking about failure to notice duplication in short list of supposedly interesting content published by oneself.
Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by alain94040 on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:33PM
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The reason is plain and simple: when you build a list for an audience, it needs to have many bullet points. So you are tempted to use the same fact twice with a slightly different take.
"2 things you didn't know about entrepreneurs" sounds less interesting/professional/worth reading that "10 things".
Example from this article:
4. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.
11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.