Can someone recommend me more articles like this? Skeptical of new startups. I am a college student in Europe and I would love one day to start a startup, but I am afraid I missed the good window for starting one, and that the era is sadly over. (Internet is old, mobile 10 years old, I am AI sceptic)
The era of low-hanging digitized fruit and dumb hot money may be over, but there will always be a market for innovation. What’s changing is that in complex, relatively slower, markets, what will be rewarded is the ability to transform experience and knowledge into new solutions. (There’s a reason that the median age for successful entrepreneurs is in the mid-forties.)
What I would recommend is building a career that rapidly exposes you to a large number of industries at a relatively strategic or operational level, then focus in on an industry you find compelling. The tacit knowledge you develop there will help you find wicked problems endemic to that area, and hence develop solutions that can be operationalized.
I actually tried to read this article but gave up. The scroll jacking on the site made it incredible difficult to read because when you scroll, the paragraph you want to read, is unnaturally scrolled of the page.
[+] [-] qnsi|7 years ago|reply
Some interesting articles connected: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/venture-capital-peaked/ http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html
[+] [-] HillRat|7 years ago|reply
What I would recommend is building a career that rapidly exposes you to a large number of industries at a relatively strategic or operational level, then focus in on an industry you find compelling. The tacit knowledge you develop there will help you find wicked problems endemic to that area, and hence develop solutions that can be operationalized.
[+] [-] imartin2k|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] electic|7 years ago|reply