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Racer Riley (rileydmcdonald)
Race Number 24
Date Tue, 6 May 2014 18:54:29 +0000
Universe worthless_impossible_stupid
Speed 82 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.0%
Rank 2nd place (out of 3)
Opponents makky_86 (1st place)

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Why is that? The main reason is that you are swimming against the market's existing current, going against the grain. All entrepreneurs do that. If that were not the case, it would not be entrepreneurship. Because you, or your friends, are doing something novel, bringing a product or service to the market is that doesn't exist yet except in your mind's eye. You are trying to tell people that what they are currently buying is not good enough, that they need to pay you in order to change their behavior. That means you are butting up against from anything from apathy to scorn. But if you succeed in scaling that wall of resistance, you will have proven that that new product or service has.
Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (book) by Daniel Isenberg (see stats)