From all I've seen, I would bring home these points: 1) Have a full-time job and do the startup on the side until you're simply not able to anymore. 2) Read,

From all I've seen, I would bring home these points: 1) Have a full-time job and do the startup on the side until you're simply not able to anymore. 2) Read, read, read about modern successes and failures. Studying management of the 80s doesn't make you a good manager - it makes you a historian. Find people you look up to, and learn what you don't want to do. 3) Don't make a copy of something until you've tried to fix what you don't like of the original.