Two unfortunate things about the startup community: 1) There is no business too small for commentators to say "That is beneath my notice and therefore I will not disparage it and confidently predict failure." 2) There is no business too large for commentators to stop doing #1.
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It would be a happier, healthier world if people looked at entrepreneurs and extended them the same charitable "Hmm, I default to thinking you're probably good at your job and your offering is valuable" we extend to teachers, journalists, or barbers for that matter.
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"And if you're bad at your job, because probabalistically some entrepreneurs, teachers, or barbers are bad at their job, I will probably not yell into your place of business 'Hey you are bad at your job!' if we don't have an existing relationship, for reasons.", one continues.
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What if that is at the expense of others? I think it's a bit more nuanced isn't it?
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I think the portion of businesses which are fundamentally malicious in character is such a small fraction of the universe of businesses that I'm reasonably not having to caveat that advice.
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I wrote about a related issue here: https://hackernoon.com/the-ideators-dilemma-3aaf0b92e788 …. Main point: new ideas often go from seeming dumb to being post-hoc obvious really quickly, meaning no validation coming or going.
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