Enjoyed this post a lot, thanks for writing it, Ben.

getting a job = being a non-poser entrepreneur? I think your last point is a bit off.

The point is not that working for someone else is an entrepreneurial activity, but that experience is a prerequisite to successful entrepreneurship. School doesn't confer that experience, except to the extent that students often have a lot of spare time and access to resources. Self-motivated students who take advantage of that can do that well, but not everyone is a Gates or Zuckerberg who can afford to ignore the curriculum in favor of their spare-time projects. For most, working for someone else - which includes free-lancing or working for friends' startups - is by far the best way to learn what's truly in demand, what's truly new, what's truly possible.

Nice work guys, and thanks for posting the results and what you've learned.

Thoughts? Other than what not to do, how about some really original tactics that work for you?

Sounds like a similar content based strategy to Answers.com.

Are you familiar with All Top?

Certainly content based but not QA like Answers.com. And yeah I am familiar with All Top but it's not quite the same. What I envision is a single page for each news story that is a consolidation of all of the best content on that one story.

So tweets, links to articles, photos, videos, political cartoons, wikipedia links, etc.

I agree (I am one of them), but there are also lots of people who get into business and start a company for the exact opposite reason: cash out as big and as fast as possible.

I disagree, Tom. You see, I believe entrepreneurs are heroes, and as such they need to lead and guide people who are unwilling to lead themselves for the greater benefit of all.

Nobody can change others, and there are plenty of guides online about personal development if that is what one is interested in.

Hi Tom, I think most people (me included) would agree with your last sentence)

Question for you though: which do you think creates more wealth for the most people:

Short-term greed or long term greed?

I don't think there is a difference really: short term greed which has little negative effect on the future is merely good long term greed (since a dollar today is better than a dollar tomorrow) whereas eating the seed for the next harvest isn't really greed, but insanity.

I am not advocating a blind greed simply to get as much as possible damn the consequences but a rational greed based on the understanding that it is better to have than it is to not have.

I would reconsider some of the assumptions in your first statement.

How or what would you define as "rational greed"? If you have an example that would be best since we wouldn't have to discuss in hypotheticals :)

Potentially, yes, but I do NOT believe this definition could be applied universally.

In an ideal world, this is true.

However, pay attention to what the ingredients of that seed are.

That is why there are "startups" (the type I described in the article) and then there are Startups.