Most startups fail. So they commonly get advice about how not to fail. Most of them still fail. That doesn't mean the advice was bad. Founders are gamblers and the odds suck.
If founders weren't looking for someone to tell them how to run their businesses or trying to rid themselves of their pesky responsibilities, this situation would be different. But that's a story that most founders don't want to hear.
Agree, and by extension would love to see a conversation between PG and Marc Randolph on the topic of startup advice. I can't tell if the two polar opposites or preaching essentially the same thing - both seem to say "take ideas with a grain of salt" but PG seems to exempt the founder, as if the founder and only the founder has some secret power to succeed no matter what - if only they go it alone.
"The startup can build and extend, but the startup never invents anything. That preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a [founder]." -PG Steinbeck /s :D sorry
Most startups fail. So they commonly get advice about how not to fail. Most of them still fail. That doesn't mean the advice was bad. Founders are gamblers and the odds suck.
If founders weren't looking for someone to tell them how to run their businesses or trying to rid themselves of their pesky responsibilities, this situation would be different. But that's a story that most founders don't want to hear.