[nandorsky]

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I happen to agree, especially with your first point. Entrepreneurs learn by doing, the more they do, the more they learn which is what post is talking about. Wouldn't my piece support your point about serial entrepreneurs then?

[blrgeek]

Yes. Your post goes into the first point about serial entrepreneurs, but fails to see the value of learnable entrepreneurial skills, and the value of coming from a successful startup, or with deep domain expertise.

If you're addressing fresh grads, then telling them doing a startup vs learning about a startup vs working in a startup are of different value, would be better. Even Mark suster and Ben horowitz and Steve blank suggest working in a fast growing startup is very useful before doing your own. So there is a way to learn those skills without risk, with a good salary and some small upside potential. As one of them has it, a time to learn and a time to earn...

I guess I reacted a bit to the language which speaks about taking risk very lightly.

[nandorsky]

I never said anything about quitting your job to do a startup. Much of what I said could be done while having a full time job. My point was in order to learn you should start executing.