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Each to their own of course and I have no scientific evidence to back this up but my guess is that only a fraction who ever become successful entrepreneurs take courses in entrepreneurism.

The rest see an opportunity and hire the financial, legal and technical and other advice they need.

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Real value of the course is the opportunity to get one-on-one sessions with experienced mentors; my guess is that the majority of successful founders have received advice that was crucial to their success.

The value of that meeting is network not mentoring IMO. Building a company is mostly a freeform exercise, where the elements which become part of your success are really subtle.

IMO what you will find the most is that luck has a proportionally large part to do with your success.

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