A lot of startup success is luck--or, in other words, factors outside of the control of the founders or their advisors. Yup. I hope everyone here has read the

A lot of startup success is luck--or, in other words, factors outside of the control of the founders or their advisors. Yup. I hope everyone here has read the fantastic Fooled By Randomness. Which is not to say that Drew Houston isn't awesome - by all accounts he is. But it's easy to give way too much credence to advice from a big success whose specific situation differs from our own. (And everyone's specific situation differs from our own.)