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That's hilarious.

Dear Steve Blank! The problem you've been stuck at for whatever years is solved easily: everyone should do what he is good at, tech geeks develop, sociable people sell.

Or let's then take G. W. Bush and try to turn him into a Nobel wining physicist. How do you emulate that?




Steve has earlier advocated, at length and with good arguments, that a founder should be in touch with customers for a startup to survive. You can certainly dispute that premise but in that case we expect more from you than a snarky dismissal.


Read again the article. He never was a founder. In all the firms he worked at he was a hired employee. No startup whatsoever.


I suggest you look for what's right and can be used to improve your lot, rather than looking for what's wrong and can be used to dismiss an article or a person with righteous indignation. The latter never serves any useful purpose.


The examples he cites are from times when he was an employee. He has founded/co-founded two firms: Epiphany and Rocket Science Games. I would be surprised if he didn't apply what he had learned as an employee to those startups.




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