What is a start-up entrepreneur? How is it different from a baker's apprentice who gets his master's degree and then sets up his own bakery? Or a plumber who successfully runs a corresponding business with a few employees? Only the start-up scene does not want to admit this. The same old examples (see above) of successful digital entrepreneurs seduce young students into assuming that setting up an online dog food shop is something different to setting up a stationary dog food lebanon rcs data shop in Winterthur. And they often think that this means they can question the simple logic of successful business - that more should come in than is spent as quickly as possible. They do not create entrepreneurial structures, they lack a professional approach to recruiting employees and a sensible cost-benefit analysis, and their accounting usually looks like Hempels under the sofa.
I was recently on the island of Mainau near Konstanz at a so-called investor conference (Business Angels Bodensee), where young start-ups presented themselves. First of all: there wasn't a single sensible, sustainable idea there. But I found one young man (well, he wasn't that young, just over thirty) particularly bad, who announced in all seriousness that he was particularly suitable for investors' money because he had already gone bankrupt with three start-up companies. And in America, people who have already gone bankrupt are particularly valued.