Comments on: The Organization Kid http://mindwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/the-organization-kid/ Glimpses into the mind of a Chronic Thinker Sat, 17 May 2008 01:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Poorna Shashank http://mindwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/the-organization-kid/#comment-17083 Poorna Shashank Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:37:43 +0000 http://mindwarrior.wordpress.com/?p=425#comment-17083 @Anon Well, you seem to concentrate on only one part of the whole gist of the story but anyways fine by me. First off, creating a good social networking site is by no means a trivial pursuit - I have immense respect for any tom, dick and harry who does that well. Period. And yes, I would call that entrepreneurship as well. By good, anything that adds value to his set of customers and makes money for him. Secondly, I'm not particularly speaking about the tech entrepreneur - far from it. I have immense respect for any entrepreneur who creates something of value to his customers and then makes decent money off it. Technology definitely adds an edge to a given product - but by no way can it be the differentiator - what matters is innovation - that can either be from your technology perspective or the business model perspective or the niche that is chosen or simply from the systems design perspective. In a technology focussed company alone, the real value that technology brings to the business may be about 10 - 20%. There is whole gamut of things that are required to make it a successful business. Entrepreneurs requires all sorts of people - corporate veterans who have worked in an enterprise space and are sick of it and know that they can create something better, 18-19 year olds who are very good programmers and they by themselves being in the users shoes and move out to build something better... The sort of people that a problem requires is dependent completely on the problem. A tech heavy company needs a tech god as CTO but once that is solved the real problem of building a business, marketing it and selling it and planning out the vision is a completely different ballgame. Any rigorous methodical training can give a candidate a very good perspective of a niche - no matter if the training is from academia or a company working in a very specific technology niche. @Anon
Well, you seem to concentrate on only one part of the whole gist of the story but anyways fine by me.

First off, creating a good social networking site is by no means a trivial pursuit - I have immense respect for any tom, dick and harry who does that well. Period. And yes, I would call that entrepreneurship as well. By good, anything that adds value to his set of customers and makes money for him.

Secondly, I’m not particularly speaking about the tech entrepreneur - far from it. I have immense respect for any entrepreneur who creates something of value to his customers and then makes decent money off it. Technology definitely adds an edge to a given product - but by no way can it be the differentiator - what matters is innovation - that can either be from your technology perspective or the business model perspective or the niche that is chosen or simply from the systems design perspective.

In a technology focussed company alone, the real value that technology brings to the business may be about 10 - 20%. There is whole gamut of things that are required to make it a successful business.

Entrepreneurs requires all sorts of people - corporate veterans who have worked in an enterprise space and are sick of it and know that they can create something better, 18-19 year olds who are very good programmers and they by themselves being in the users shoes and move out to build something better… The sort of people that a problem requires is dependent completely on the problem. A tech heavy company needs a tech god as CTO but once that is solved the real problem of building a business, marketing it and selling it and planning out the vision is a completely different ballgame.

Any rigorous methodical training can give a candidate a very good perspective of a niche - no matter if the training is from academia or a company working in a very specific technology niche.

]]> By: Anonymous http://mindwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/the-organization-kid/#comment-17078 Anonymous Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:46:18 +0000 http://mindwarrior.wordpress.com/?p=425#comment-17078 Risks have to be taken at right time, I guess diving into entrepreneurship just after bachelors reduces the quality of the products produced, I guess when you say entrepreneurship u mean tech entrepreneurship. Every tom dick and harry can start a social networking website or something similar to that do you call this entrepreneurship ? the young folks especially after bachelors degree fail to recognize the need to technical niche required for a successful tech entrepreneur. Technical niche only comes after a rigorous methodological academic training which I guess Princeton(or any other good University) rightly provides. Consider the silicon valley 95% of the entrepreneurs are PhD's and have survived because each has created a niche of their own. Risks have to be taken at right time, I guess diving into entrepreneurship just after bachelors reduces the quality of the products produced, I guess when you say entrepreneurship u mean tech entrepreneurship. Every tom dick and harry can start a social networking website or something similar to that do you call this entrepreneurship ? the young folks especially after bachelors degree fail to recognize the need to technical niche required for a successful tech entrepreneur.

Technical niche only comes after a rigorous methodological academic training which I guess Princeton(or any other good University) rightly provides. Consider the silicon valley 95% of the entrepreneurs are PhD’s and have survived because each has created a niche of their own.

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