10 reasons your great start-up is gonna fail

June 21, 2006 | Filed Under Start ups, Entrepreneurship, Money making as young 

When discussing entrepreneurship, starting your own company, making money on your own and so on with friends and acquintances, a lot of people seem to have a very pessimistic outlook on their opportunities to create wealth for themselves.

The law of Jante

This is of course written from a North European standpoint where the “Jante Law” often comes into play. Allow me to quote the law, from Wikipedia:

“There are 10 different rules in the law, but they are all variations on a single theme and are usually referred to as a homogeneous unit: Don’t think you’re anyone special or that you’re better than us. The 10 rules are:

1. You shall not think that you are special.
2. You shall not think that you are of the same standing as us.
3. You shall not think that you are smarter than us.
4. Don’t fancy yourself as being better than us.
5. You shall not think that you know more than us.
6. You shall not think that you are more important than us.
7. You shall not think that you are good at anything.
8. You shall not laugh at us.
9. You shall not think that anyone cares about you.
10. You shall not think that you can teach us anything. “

It is damn difficult to make serious money if laws like this keep you down. 

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