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Whatever. You're the one posing ad hoc observation and folklore as engineering.
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You always cite the engineering metaphor. Are you an engineer?


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Here's another one for you: Don't you think it's a bit of a stretch to take a Boston Consulting Group concept for analyzing lines-of-business and applying it to picking technology?
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You brought this up - not me...


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Also, to refresh your MBA memory, the "rising stars" box is typically characterized by low barriers to entry, crowded with competitors, pioneering costs, technology risk and, as a result, below average profitability. So assuming for a moment that the simile applies to picking technology, then those are the realities that must also be accepted.
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As somebody who possesses an MBA, I can say that this statement - while it has a lot of words, says very little.

BTW, I am still waiting on that list of accomplishments...