I like how he doesn't even entertain the notion that his success might come in spite of his "bad negotiation," not aided by it. Though I don't know very much about Altucher's past endeavors, in the absence of other information, the cases he brings up look like simple luck combined with abundant but far-from-fully-utilized talent...
Since following this link, and the link from it to Altucher's blog, I've read quite a few of his blogposts. And every post on his blog is better than this article, and most of them are great reading. But relatively few of them are straightforward entreporn advice of the type HN so loves.
that title has very little to do with the actual article