You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.
Good startups usually take 10 years.
What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.
The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.