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		thehappypm on Dec 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you s... "After all, with millions of potential entrepreneurs across the globe and trillions in funding chasing them, the chance that an obviously profitable business model hasn't already been dreamed up and implemented by an entrepreneur is basically nil." This basically amounts to "everything that can be invented has been invented". You sure?

alex7o on Dec 4, 2019 | [–]

No, more like you should invent a new way of selling things, otherwise the market would have found a way to sell them already.

gowld on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

Yes. And it's true, statistically. Most inventable things will be invented by someone else before you succeed at it. Statistically, no one wins the lottery, even though someone always does.

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