I agree with the sentiment of the article, Steve Blank gave a somewhat more enlightening talk about this topic at SXSW (I can't remember what it was titled, but here's the slides from the talk - it's all I could find: http://www.slideshare.net/500startups/steve-blank-stanford-s...)
"Porn" was a terrible example, btw. I imagine Porn is more difficult to get rich at then by copy-pasting and iterating on an idea in a space where VC funding is flying and it's the "popular" thing to do.
Porn, I'm sure, is extremely difficult to raise funding for and I'll bet licensing from the actual producers of porn is costly. What about user generated porn sites? I'll bet their revenue models are even more scary and only a few actually make it by pushing camsite adverts on you.
[EDIT] To finish what I was saying, I believe as a programmer, not porn but HFT or working for finance/quant firms would be a good parallel for "getting rich".
"Porn" was a terrible example, btw. I imagine Porn is more difficult to get rich at then by copy-pasting and iterating on an idea in a space where VC funding is flying and it's the "popular" thing to do.
Porn, I'm sure, is extremely difficult to raise funding for and I'll bet licensing from the actual producers of porn is costly. What about user generated porn sites? I'll bet their revenue models are even more scary and only a few actually make it by pushing camsite adverts on you.
[EDIT] To finish what I was saying, I believe as a programmer, not porn but HFT or working for finance/quant firms would be a good parallel for "getting rich".