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If You Want Useful Startup Advice, Only Listen to These Types of People
Everyone in the startup world has advice, but the good advice only comes from one place.
I was reading the comment section on one of my articles (admittedly a bad idea) when I stumbled across a person questioning the integrity/motivations of my entrepreneurship advice. Here’s the relevant part of what he wrote:
“The key thing in this text is the last sentence, placed in a separate paragraph, where the author offers to take his free course, at which point he will most likely sell his paid course. It is likely that this story did not happen at all. It’s just that the author invented it to sell his courses. In our country, such guys are called ‘infogypsies’, as people who are ready to rob you like a stick if you trust them.”
For the record, here’s a screenshot of what he’s referencing… which is how I end most of my articles:
When I read the comment, I was immediately offended. “Didn’t this guy bother to research me?” I asked aloud in my empty office. “I’m not some anonymous ‘infogypsie.’ I teach entrepreneurship at a…
