From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 01:44:47 MDT
On Friday 18 July 2003 08:37, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> > Robin Hanson wrote:
> >> I just came across this thought-provoking future speculation by
> >> Geoffrey Miller, author of "The Mating Mind":
> >> http://psych.unm.edu/faculty/moral_vision.htm
> >> There's something broken about this idea, but its hard to say
> >> exactly what it is.
>
> ### To put it briefly - Miller believes that successful companies exist
> because investors invest in them. A more correct vision, IMO, is that
> companies exist primarily because customers demand their services and are
> willing to pay. Investors come later.
Not quite. Without seed capital and continuing investment companies cannot
get off the ground and offer anything to would be customers.
- s
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