Unpopular opinion: Successful startups rely on an enormous amount of luck. What’s the ratio of luck to hard work? #indiehackers
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Replying to @geetfun @IndieHackers
I think that, as written, this is probably accurate, but it mostly gets deployed by people who have not [made a hundred sales calls] against those who have. There’s ten thousand things I could put in those brackets.
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"Ten thousand things in brackets" add to the point. There are so many essential things you can/have to do, as it becomes a matter of luck to select the right ones.
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I *strongly* disagree with that, because they can be learned/taught. There's some sensible way to talk about the amount of execution risk involved in being a doctor versus starting a software company but "luck" is not a helpful or actionable framing of the discussion.
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