This is an excellent point. As I said in the article, I'm a business guy myself. I was in the business school of my college in fact- and the undergrad program was basically the MBA program in twice as much time. So basically, I've done all of the work, in twice the time, with none of the networking of a true MBA program. haha.

However, the point was really to bring up the fact that experts in any field are going to be useful. EP's rant was primarily that he felt that a mediocre business guy has no place amongst elite hackers in a software startup, and I would mostly agree with that. I would also say that a mediocre code monkey has no place in a startup either.

But if you can identify some true talent- regardless of their specific discipline, you could have a great addition to the team. Would anyone NOT give the next Seth Godin something to do in your startup if you had the chance?

P.s. Another crack at business schools- at least at our undergraduate program, this is also what all of the kids on sports scholarships were enrolled...

Good times.