I've been saying for a long time that things like Startup School and YC (I went through YC S09) aren't about teaching you the path to success, but rather to teach you about known paths to failure.
It's always a little disappointing to me to hear stories about how someone succeeded, that's likely to contain relatively little replicable information. A story of failure however tends to contain plenty of examples of concrete things to avoid doing! Not a universal precept of course, many of those who succeed do so by violating known rules, but after hearing many failure stories you start to better understand common threads.
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I've been saying for a long time that things like Startup School and YC (I went through YC S09) aren't about teaching you the path to success, but rather to teach you about known paths to failure.
It's always a little disappointing to me to hear stories about how someone succeeded, that's likely to contain relatively little replicable information. A story of failure however tends to contain plenty of examples of concrete things to avoid doing! Not a universal precept of course, many of those who succeed do so by violating known rules, but after hearing many failure stories you start to better understand common threads.