Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed | Bill Gross | TED" video.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called "Outliers" and he basically said this as well. Look at Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, they were both around the same age, and were well situation to learn and be around computers, and in a upper middle class environment with mentors around to help them. It's not a coincidence. It was not their drive or anything special, they were the people in the right place at the right time.
8
Yellow King Good question ... one of those questions you can only answer by looking back after it's already succeeded or failed.
6
videoguy640 Not really ... and I would not use the term " dismiss" either. Any average person who lived in the time and environment, with the exposures to computers ahead of other people and the opportunity and knowledge to start a business could have filled the vacuum of a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs. History is full of ideas that came around just at a certain time with multiple independent discoverers. There is really not much dispute about that. So ... maybe in the next hundred years we will realize how arbitrary our patent system is to give all rewards and monopoly to one person who can then drain everyone else for the most possible money. That is a fascist institution on its own that supports and sustains the very problems we have. If we wanted to be sure to move as fast as possible forward in technology at the lowest cost we would drasticly reduce or eliminate patents. When you look at things with limits, as in calculus, discoveries and progress is going too fast now for a 20, 60, 0 year monopoly ... it is totalitarian.
2
***** What did they do?
1
Caroline Edmiston (Cooki3Fairy) I guess great minds think alike. ;-)
1
Funny, I would have said timing too. I never bought anything online for a long time because I did not think it was safe, until I bought something off Amazon to try it out. Now I buy something off Amazon and trust them still today ... and get something at least a couple times a week. But you also have to connect with the customer, or potential customer so they know you are there, and you have to do it right as well. I could have had a horrible experience with Amazon. Very early on Amazon impressed me. Not too many other online companies have. Certainly not Apple. I hate maneuvering their clunky websites and the way Apple does not take responsibility for anything. I like Apple products, I just don't like Apple so should a competitor come along I will not have much loyalty to Apple.
1