Comments on: why do we stray? http://www.sethlevine.com/wp/2008/10/why-do-we-stray Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dawn http://www.sethlevine.com/wp/2008/10/why-do-we-stray/comment-page-1#comment-19400 Dawn Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:15:34 +0000 http://new.sethlevine.com/wp/2008/10/why-do-we-stray#comment-19400 I've often wondered the same thing, Seth. Like the mentality that you don't need a business model when you start a company. To me, that's like building the Trump Tower without plumbing or wiring and then trying to cram them in later. Somehow. Monetization needs to be built into a company's DNA, or it's not a real company, if you ask me. Like Twitter...it reminds me of Pinocchio hoping to become a real boy. May take a miracle. I think this is a particularly bad problem in the tech world because techies are typically young. They haven't lived through enough cycles to understand that you need to be ready for the hard times. They're a bunch of fiddling grasshoppers compared to us food gathering ants. I've often wondered the same thing, Seth. Like the mentality that you don't need a business model when you start a company. To me, that's like building the Trump Tower without plumbing or wiring and then trying to cram them in later. Somehow.

Monetization needs to be built into a company's DNA, or it's not a real company, if you ask me. Like Twitter…it reminds me of Pinocchio hoping to become a real boy. May take a miracle.

I think this is a particularly bad problem in the tech world because techies are typically young. They haven't lived through enough cycles to understand that you need to be ready for the hard times. They're a bunch of fiddling grasshoppers compared to us food gathering ants.

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