maxmarmer

Looks like you didn't read the first sentence.

"Elon Musk is an amazing entrepreneur but as a World Savior he is probably the World’s most OverRated."

I posted it earlier myself and it got 5 upvote points but then was flagged.

ok, didn't know that. Asking the friend who posted for me to correct it.

hey, I'm the author...and that was actually the point. I deemed it worthy to try to dial up the intensity of the tone to be heard, as I figured I would be ignored otherwise.

And then intended to eloquently converse in the comments.

The goal of igniting the conversation was achieved as the facebook thread got almost 300 comments.

That's correct. All startups in our dataset we're at least active between Feb 2010 and May 2010 when we started collecting data.

The initial idea isn't that important. Entrepreneurs change their idea all the time. In the report we show that consistent companies or ones that scale properly, are more focused on discovering whether their idea makes sense where as companies that scale prematurely are more focused on validating that they are right. And as far as personality, while it's an interesting variable to look at in the future, in the end of the day we just look at whether the company produces results regardless of their predisposition. It's also common wisdom that there are many different kinds of entrepreneurs that have been successful.