Am the only one that finds listening to startup podcasts to be useless?
I've listened to countless startup podcasts and read countless startup books. Without your own experiences running a business its hard to sift through the cruft of bad advice out there. I guess it's more entertainment than an actual productive pursuit.
I would say "useless" is a little harsh. You have to look take up these resources with a goal in mind.
For the most part they are just regurgitating commonsense and nothing is new under the sun as much as SV would want you to think.
If you want to create a health startup it probably better to become a bioscientist instead of an MBA ... unless you are filthy rich already an just need to learn management skills.
But for those that already have the tech skills and need a little guidance on management, marketing, talking to VCs I think the info is good. Just dont expect to understand how to make the next ubiquitous distributed system (amazon ec2) without any systems/programming knowledge.
In fact I think "startup" should be considered a fad that is over. The word holds little meaning and any meaning it had is now over. The money guys are all over the place and the true "startups" already panned all the easy gold from the river.
Startups as they were (if ever) cannot be create now. Now you just have an internet business. And that pretty cool too.
If anyone happens to know a nanotechnologist working out of their garage I would like to speak to them about a startup project
I've listened to countless startup podcasts and read countless startup books. Without your own experiences running a business its hard to sift through the cruft of bad advice out there. I guess it's more entertainment than an actual productive pursuit.