#business #innovation
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# Survival of the fittest
>Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models per form too poorly to be useful. The first cameras, typewriters, and television sets were as awful as Otto's seven-foot-tall gas engine. That makes it difficult for an inventor to foresee whether his or her awful prototype might eventually find a use and thus warrant more time and expense to develop it.
>~ [[Jared Diamond]]
In [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurship]], survival of the fittest is more about persisting with [[Tinkering]] and making your idea go through an [[Evolution|evolutionary]] process until it works.
## [[Entrepreneurship]] is not necessarily a [[Zero Sum Game]]
I believe it's quite bad to see it as a [[Zero Sum Game]], making people hiding their ideas, making proprietary, closed systems and slowing the growth of [[Wealth|wealth]] of society.
[[Competition is for losers]].
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