Ouch.

"We do not invest in an idea, but in an enterpreneur or enterpreneur team. We have checked apx. 400 business plans in last three years and the idea itself is worth nothing in business. There is always 10 Slovenes more with the same idea, 50 Europeans, 100 Chinese... Business is competition - who will have the best team, the best strategy, the best marketing."

Slovenian Business Angels, Blaž Kos, coordinator (Slovene links: 1, 2)

Photo: Dejan

Random existence.

"It is weird and unfair, said Gauss, pure example of lousy randomness of existence, that you are born in certain time and you belong to it if you want it or not. This gives you certain advantage compared to past, but it makes fun of you compared to future."

D. Kehlmann - Measuring the World (English)

Photo: Dejan, more than 100 years old Romanian "bowling center"