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by chrisstpierre 3156 days ago
As entrepreneurs the only way to learn are either through our own experience or those of others. Of course this is an interdisciplinary subject, and so other domain knowledge is perhaps most important. But how do we become better at entrepreneurship then? It is especially difficult because it is almost impossible to differentiate accounts that are true from those that are fabricated to suit some marketing purpose. We should learn from the accounts depicted here, but it really isn't enough. When we only have accurate coverage of the extremes of failures/successes, we end up with a distorted view of how things work. It would be great to see more rigorous formal studies being done more consistently, so we can take the same approach to learning that we have in other disciplines.