How To Become Legendary- What Michael Jordan Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

[Sukotto]

  Starting a company is a roller-coaster ride like none other.
  YCombinator actually has a graph here about this exact
  subject (now updated to include MixPanel analytics FAIL!).

I would very much like to see that graph.

Also, did something happen to mixpanel? I thought they were doing well.

[jasonlbaptiste]

Here's the pic. http://instagr.am/p/eq62/

I worded that sentence poorly. Mixpanel is killing it from what I've heard.

[macco]

What Michal Jordan did, was the opposite of Entrepreneurship: It's called optimization. If he would have created a new game, he would be an entrepreneur.

[tdmackey]

Being a good athlete is only part of what he did.

He also created a brand around himself becoming far and away the most marketed sports figure in history that generated billions of dollars and boosted sales of many brands he was affiliated with. That doesn't happen by just optimizing your ability to play a game.

[lian]

The Michael Jordan approach, however, is one that is as aptly applied to entrepreneurship as it is to optimizing your abilities and success in any realm. He's created a product called Michael Jordan, and that product has proved unarguably to be a game-changer, if not an entirely new game itself.

[achompas]

True, but his suggestions on competing at the highest level definitely apply to startups.

[royrod]

I think there are some good parallels. The analogy of Dharmesh as Jordan is funny :) although he is a great sensei of course.

I especially agree with disregarding the press and short-term events/wins. Working hard every day builds up over time into something worthwhile.

[dinedal]

OnStartups.com always takes forever to load the actual article. The difference between this and sites that generate static HTML for their posts is incredible.

[dshah]

You're right. Sorry about that. I need to go through and clean-house a little bit (too much stuff has accumulated over the years).

I'll make it faster.

[JoelSutherland]

It's not a CMS issue, it is the 61 other HTTP requests:

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/onstartups.com/Zxyd9pda

[jasonlbaptiste]

Hey check out this one too. It's personally my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9IGY2U2dQ

[foljs]

That it can only happen if you are born for this?