[Udo]

You don't know what league you're in until you try. With sports, it's relatively easy to see why someone isn't a pro player - startup founders are harder to judge. In fact, judging the potential league of a startup is such a hard problem that even VCs, who are in the business of making such judgements, have to make a lot of rather unsafe bets.

How's a person to know they're not good enough? Should everyone who doesn't come into the game already rich and well-connected just stay away?

[theboss]

I don't think you're right. Even in professional sports, bad scouting reports happen just like when VCs make the wrong call.

Sometimes a persons particular skill-set scales really well at the next level and scouts and VCs may not expect that (Tom Brady 6th round pick versus a VC who says wow I wish I invested in ____).

Sometimes a persons particular skill-set looks like they will play really well in the big leagues but they never really do, or a well-funded startup never really gets traction for whatever reason.

I think the sports to startup analogy might actually be quite good.

[Udo]

Okay, so while you disagree with me and the article about the sports analogy, you seemingly still agree with me about startups (which was the central point of my post).