Comments on: First-time Entrepreneurs? http://jasonball.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/ Technology & Venture Capital. Early stage venture capital news mixed with personal views and comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Marc http://jasonball.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-298 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:22 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-298 Nice illustration of the quite old (at least as old as this industry is) “bet on horse” vs. “bet on jockey” parable, nicely sorted out by Kaplan @ UoC

]]> By: Chris Osborne http://jasonball.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-297 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:38:27 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-297 Here’s the original article on ft.com:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fb24f8a4-2151-11dd-a0e6-000077b07658.html

]]> By: Jason Ball http://jasonball.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-296 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:29:54 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-296 I didn’t get to read the original (in the FT), but no, I don’t think there’s any reference to that. I think any correlation to experience and success (in a start up) is tenuous- it can help in some situations and hurt in others. The fact that there are so many moving parts and uncertainty around them means that even the best management team can still blow it…(and vice versa).

]]> By: James Lukas III http://jasonball.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-295 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:49:13 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/first-time-entrepreneurs/#comment-295 Despite registering, cannot access the article.

Anyway, at least he didn’t find a negative correlation (= experience decreases chance of success) did he?

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