Why Luck in Business is Overrated: Solopreneur Reality Check
Published on 17.11.2025
Why the Role of Luck in Business is Overrated
TLDR: A consultant's year-long experiment with "increasing surface area for luck" through 13 different initiatives revealed that solopreneurship success depends less on lucky breaks and more on sustained focus, managing limiting beliefs, and recognizing that data-driven experimentation requires scale most solopreneurs lack.
Why the role of luck in business is overrated
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