Based on what I know today today, I estimate that entrepreneurship is one third talent, one third luck and one third wisdom. Talent is not teachable and, at present, is very hard to identify in first time entrepreneurs. Luck cannot be taught nor bought but plays an important role in success, and, unfortunately, is often misinterpretedContinue reading “Part 9: Entrepreneurship = Luck + Talent + Wisdom”
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Part 1: Entrepreneurship is like evaluating a fancy bottle of wine
Based on taste tests, it turns out that experts are very bad at predicting the future price of fine Bordeaux wines – so realised Orley Ashenfelter, a Priceton economist. As told by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow, when Ashenfelter built simple rules of thumb to predict prices he was able to achieve accuracy far beyondContinue reading “Part 1: Entrepreneurship is like evaluating a fancy bottle of wine”
