I haven’t stopped my work with Twitter from a couple days ago with the most recent discovery a viral app that seems to work a bit like a pyramid scheme to introduce new users to your profile.
Anyone use this? Any success?
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Entrepreneurial people do things without waiting for permission, resources, or approval, because they're wired to see what needs to be done and act. In conventional organizational structures, this looks like insubordination, distraction, or poor follow-through. It isn't. It's a fundamentally different operating mode that organizational environments consistently misread as a performance problem when it's actually a management and structure problem.
A regional network of interconnected actors (founders, investors, universities, accelerators, corporations, and governments) whose density, specialization, and trust determine whether startups can actually form, grow, and exit at scale.
Through sector specialization, anchor institutions (universities, corporations, government labs), early exits that recirculate capital locally, and deliberate network density. Top-down programs alone don't create ecosystems, they serve ecosystems that already have momentum.
Because the data is cherry-picked. Survivorship bias means we celebrate the bootstrapped outliers while ignoring the thousands that stayed small, sold cheaply, or quietly shut down. Most companies that achieve venture scale were venture funded. The exceptions prove the rule, not the other way around.
the sound of crickets speaks volumes