37 Pithy Insights From Street-Smart Entrepreneurs

The original article included gems like “There are always more things to do than there is time to do them. Startups are a continuous exercise in deciding what not to do.” And “There’s a lot of value to being likable. Good things happen when people like you. When people like you, bad things have less of a chance of being fatal. I advise being likable.” Now here are what OnStartups.com readers had to say:

The response to an earlier article “Startups: 10 Things MBA Schools Won’t Teach You” has been overwhelmingly positive. The article has now received about 150 comments across various websites (on the OnStartups.com site, in the OnStartups LinkedIn group, etc.) Unsurprisingly, many of the comments are much better than anything I could have ever come up with on my own.

So, to further the conversation and discussion, I decided to collect, edit and share some of the fantastic insights from reader comments.