What's the Difference between an Entrepreneur and a Robot?

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11 points·wschroter··6 comments

The robot is the one with wheels:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesmoon/432175003/

I know this is way late, but that was funny as hell.

This is a little silly. How do you know when you have found a robot? When someone says no. How do you know when you have found an entrepreneur? When someone says yes. No doubt a good entrepreneur can find an encouraging angle on a lot of bad ideas, but that insight still does not make a bad idea good.

Innovative people have a lot of ideas; successful innovative people are able to understand which ideas are worthwhile and execute them. An entrepreneur with promise may well tell you: You are dead wrong.

Of course a buffoon may well tell you the same when you are well on your way to conquer the world. This article does not offer helpful insight into understanding who to respect (save for not respecting the author of course).

fp - it's supposed to be silly. The point was to make sure the person you're talking to and is providing advice has actually built a company and is not just a robot talking out of their ass.

I'm sorry. I would not have been so cold had I noticed the author submitted the article and would likely read the comments. I was tactless.

I read some of your other work and found it to be sensible and helpful. Although I still think that this article, standing alone, may raise suspicions of charlatanism. It would be a great shame if that was the idea people took away from your work.

But, I am not convinced that I am not a robot talking out of my ass. What do I know?

thx falseprophet - the article as kind of tongue and cheek and if it were the only thing I had read (of my columns) I would have probably had the same response as you!

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