"The author leaves no room for any concept of "skill" in entrepreneurship, and this is the big flaw in his article."
From the article:
"And you certainly can’t go through life as an entrepreneur without becoming smarter. You learn from your mistakes, you make great contacts within an industry, you understand better what other competitors are doing."
If that isn't a round about way of talking about entrepreneurship skill building, I'm not sure what is.
The skill you reference has to be developed somewhere – even if that's just watching others and learning from the litany of mistakes out there... otherwise it's an innate ability and that's exactly what the author is arguing against in this piece.
If anything, I feel as though the author still falls into the trap of believing in the mythical "great idea". There are plenty of really good ideas out there – they just need to match up with the right environmental factors (time, money, competitors, etc. etc.) and the right people at the right point in their lives. Good ideas don't execute (and thus succeed or fail) in a vacuum – and so, just like the fundamental attribution error the author mentions early on, as it applies to people, the same thing goes for ideas.
From the article:
"And you certainly can’t go through life as an entrepreneur without becoming smarter. You learn from your mistakes, you make great contacts within an industry, you understand better what other competitors are doing."
If that isn't a round about way of talking about entrepreneurship skill building, I'm not sure what is.
The skill you reference has to be developed somewhere – even if that's just watching others and learning from the litany of mistakes out there... otherwise it's an innate ability and that's exactly what the author is arguing against in this piece.
If anything, I feel as though the author still falls into the trap of believing in the mythical "great idea". There are plenty of really good ideas out there – they just need to match up with the right environmental factors (time, money, competitors, etc. etc.) and the right people at the right point in their lives. Good ideas don't execute (and thus succeed or fail) in a vacuum – and so, just like the fundamental attribution error the author mentions early on, as it applies to people, the same thing goes for ideas.