Successful startups result from their founders’ 10% inspiration, 20% perspiration, 30% connections to people with money and power, and the remainder — simply, their good fortune. Without discounting the value of being in touch with current markets and events, and staying foresightful, it’s clear in personal history after personal history that successful entrepreneurs each occupy a unique nexus of opportunity for which they usually cannot account. (Those more inventive — or narcissistic — author self-promotional stories that they themselves come to believe, junk-food advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.) A more honest entrepreneur quoted in Business Week awhile back made this admission: “I became a success in my business not because I was born with an aptitude for making money. I was not tutored in the art, nor did I learn at the knee of the mighty and successful. Simply, my employment ended and I was cornered. I had to do something. So I did what I thought needed to be done, that I knew how to do. And the times were right. The times were right….”