He's not saying that anyone can start a successful startup in 10 hours per week. Quite the contrary: "Odds are you’ll fail. Just as odds are you’ll fail if yo

He's not saying that anyone can start a successful startup in 10 hours per week. Quite the contrary: "Odds are you’ll fail. Just as odds are you’ll fail if you take millions of VC money, hire a staff of twenty, and spend 120 hours/week on it." The take-home point of the essay, ISTM, is that if you only have 10 hours a week for your startup, those 10 hours can still be well spent.