I find it interesting that he slags The E-Myth, which is one of my highest recommended books, especially since he says "It’s about small business" which by defi

I find it interesting that he slags The E-Myth, which is one of my highest recommended books, especially since he says "It’s about small business" which by definition pretty much all startups start as. I.e. the single most important takeaway I got from it was "make sure every essential hat is worn by someone". Which echos the advice in one of the items in DEC's official history book of sorts on the minicomputer era, that companies that succeeded did an adequate job of everything that was essential. I.e. you pretty much never bought DEC because of their mass storage offerings (and some of them were really bad after they got huge), but they didn't drop the ball on any of the essential things like documentation. Which then allowed them to compete on things like CPU design (pity they screwed up being able to make the VAX fast), whereas many companies that failed simply didn't produce machines their customers could use. Hmmm, this is both a disruptive technology, and one where product-market fit was relatively easy. But other advice might be "sketchy", a lot of companies, especially of the HN variety, won't necessarily benefit from documenting them as if you were going to franchise them. But maybe some? Ride sharing and Airbnb's business models?