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by chegra84 5908 days ago
"successful innovators" lol. I have this idea that it takes more than one person to be successful. I think you rarely find the guy with the revolutionary idea and the guy that is the determine hard worker to be the same person. The ideas person is normally a dreamer and likes to change ideas quickly while the determine hard worker is diligent and hates change.

According to Meredith Belbin - "NOBODY'S PERFECT - BUT A TEAM CAN BE" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Belbin

Although on the surface one person gets all the glory, it takes alot of persons to be successful.
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RyanMcGreal 5908 days ago
>I think you rarely find the guy with the revolutionary idea and the guy that is the determine hard worker to be the same person.

I disagree. The only way to arrive at a workable revolutionary idea is to iterate aggressively until you hit on a model that works.

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chegra84 5908 days ago
Absolutes... words like only...Successfully Entrepreneurs. Be reasonable and say for some workable revolutionary idea. You'll are creating a dogma about entrepreneurship.

It only takes one counter example to brake your false notion of entrepreneurship.

Facebook - when it came out was a hit.

Google Search - they were good from the start, the interface rarely changed

eBay - Unexcepted hit. [The majority of their iteration was done after they were successful] -There is something called luck. For people that arent superstars maybe you are right. All am asking is to be reasonable and say some, not all.

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RyanMcGreal 5908 days ago
You can't warn credibly against absolutes right after writing a generalization like this:

> I think you rarely find the guy with the revolutionary idea and the guy that is the determine hard worker to be the same person. The ideas person is normally a dreamer and likes to change ideas quickly while the determine hard worker is diligent and hates change.

These are caricatures that reinforce the false dichotomy between creativity and hard work.

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chegra84 5908 days ago
Rarely is not an absolute.Rarely leaves room for outliers, And before rarely, i added i think, making it clear i have no evidence to back this up.

Only - is an absolute. You made no effort to indicate it was an opinion but you present it as an absolute truth.

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chegra84 5908 days ago
The main point of my rely was to go down with certain cliche phrase like 1% and 99%.

And with the notion one person builds a company.

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