In case you aren't aware of the background of the author: He went to Stanford and was President of Y Combinator at the time he wrote this. If you feel as thou

In case you aren't aware of the background of the author: He went to Stanford and was President of Y Combinator at the time he wrote this. If you feel as though you could feed a bunch of VC advice into a database and have your ML algorithm generate something similar to this post, you're right. If you don't subscribe to the philosophy that success coincides with doing things that make VCs richer (with a small chance of benefits for yourself too) there's not much in there for you.