Thursday, December 9, 2010

The pivotal moment

Investors should back people rather than ideas. It is easier to launch and test an idea, and to pivot to another if it flops. Fail to twirl and (you) may become one of the living dead. An entrepreneur can (also) overdo it and become a “compulsive jumper, never picking a single direction long enough to find out if there’s anything there.”

Read more at The Economist