Marc Andreessen Explains Why the Curse of the Entrepreneur Is Being Too Early

From Startup Archive — read the original.

Highlights

• And so it’s a little inexplicable as to why it hasn’t happened to it… It must be just about to happen and I must be too late.”
• We almost never see a qualified founder fail because they were too late to market. It’s almost always because they’re too early to market.
• The world just wasn’t ready yet, and the required technologies weren’t in place (e.g. mobile broadband, high-resolution screens, battery technology, etc.).
• you’re probably right on time because the infrastructure and consumer behavior has now caught up.

Connections

• Market Timing — the asymmetry is the whole argument: lateness is survivable, earliness usually isn’t.
• Marc Andreessen — arguing from 20+ years of pattern-matching on failed-but-correct ideas.