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I am no quite sure if I should take this class - or the Entrepreneurship one for that matter. I am busy start a startup. This classes will probably take quite some time and I can't really imagine, what I could possibly learn form them, that I haven't picked up from various resources linked here over time. What do you think?

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So there is nothing Steve Blank could teach you that you don't already know? Besides, these classes involve getting into teams and trying out the concepts from class (and might have read about on HN) in the real world. I think you might learn a lot.

Of cause I am not saying that he could not teach me anything. I just can't imaging that it will be worth the time-investment. I didn't realize that the online student will also work in teams, that actually makes me even less inclined to take part. Working on another project, will be a even bigger distraction from my own startup.

Learning about startups while starting your own is a balance everyone has to consider for themselves. Depending on how much you already know about startups, a class could either be an eye-opening epiphany which will save you years of work wasted because of silly mistakes, or a waste of time repeating what you already know.

Beware of the Dunning-Kruger effect when deciding which you'll be. I've met one too many founders with an attitude of "I'm too busy working hard to stop and think" that could really have benefited from stopping, stepping back, and reconsidering some of their major assumptions.

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