The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Not content just to insult venture capitalists, Guy Kawasaki has published his The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs. Number 7 is a doozy:
- “No one can do what we’re doing.â€? If there’s anything worse than the lack of a market and cluelessness, it’s arrogance. No one else can do this until the first company does it, and ten others spring up in the next ninety days. Let’s see, no one else ran a sub four-minute mile after Roger Bannister. (It took only a month before John Landy did). The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I’m a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that’s doing the same thing.
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