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Originally Posted by Davy
I disagree.
On the internet, one of the main advantages was being there first.
The guys who registered valuable domains 15 years ago are now all either sitting on millions or made millions. That does have not much to do with being an entrepreneur.
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Originally Posted by FetishWeb
They would all disagree strongly, a lot of them have taken up blogging and writing long formal self-congratulatory treatises about their entrepreneurial abilities.
The reality is if they had to start over again today with equal means they wouldn't be able to make a penny.
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Don't forget that 99.99% of ALL business is that way. It's the guy who was smart enough to see the future and got there FIRST that makes the money. Hell, it just happened again a couple of years ago when Brazzers got Pornhub to explode. I never saw it coming. Wish I had.
And you can apply that "if they had to start over again today with equal means they wouldn't be able to make a penny" to any successful person in most businesses.
Think about it. If Sam Walton were alive today and tried to start from scratch to build something SIMILAR to WalMart...he wouldn't be able to do it. Why? Because WalMart already exists and he wouldn't be bringing anything innovative like that to the table.
Don't discount people's intelligence and business savvy just because it looks easy to you from the outside looking in. Even guys who did nothing more than buy a bunch of domain names 15 years ago...they had the foresight that you and I did NOT have to do so.
And in any industry or business in the world...that's called being smart. If all the people on GFY who constantly try to pump themselves up as being great "businessmen" had half the instincts of a really successful businessman...then they too would have made all the right moves at the right times. They would have done it back then...and they would be doing it right now. Just my observation. The most successful guys in the world do work hard, but a LOT of what they do is pure gut instincts and aggressiveness. Shit you can't learn or teach or analyze.
We ALL have access to the same data that a guy like Warren Buffet has if we want it. But yet, he knows what to do to make money. Some people are just like that. Some people are Donald Trump, and others...no matter how many books they read or statistics they analyze or A -> B testings they do...never are.