My partner started a business and literally from her first ad she was inundated with customers. Now it's a $10m/year bootstrapped business. I've done exactly the same thing and had 0 customers.
If you are falling into the Hard Fact / Future Vision categories it can very hard to get customers because no one is ever looking for your product.
There's not enough details here to say what she did right and you did wrong, but it generally comes down to her idea probably solved a problem customers were willing to pay a lot for today and your idea didn't.
If her idea was "when you pay me x, you get 3x back in new revenue" and your idea was a tarpit idea like "help people find what to eat tonight", it's really obvious why you failed.
Wrong, even if both agents are identical, and they're operating in the same environment, each run of the simulation will be slightly different, i.e. the process is stochastic (non-deterministic).
In reality the agents are not identical (e.g. different skillsets, or attractiveness to clients), and the environments are different (e.g. different professional or social networks).
And, as another commenter pointed out, the time when agents are starting is also a factor, but my point is that even if they start at the same time the result might be different.
Lastly, there is a butterfly effect - that small changes in the initial conditions may result in vastly different outcomes.
My partner started a business and literally from her first ad she was inundated with customers. Now it's a $10m/year bootstrapped business. I've done exactly the same thing and had 0 customers.
If you are falling into the Hard Fact / Future Vision categories it can very hard to get customers because no one is ever looking for your product.