Startup Myths – I shall not be fooled again by gurus

That's true in any field. It's just that lately we've created a new kind of "guru", the Internet-famous blogger, who can reach a wide audience very easily but not necessarily because what they have to say is particularly valuable or widely applicable. For better or worse, the subset of such people who write about start-ups tends to get a lot of front page time on sites like HN.

Just remember when you read their highly opinionated writing that for every one of them, there are probably 1,000 other people with just as much skill, experience and wisdom who don't choose to spend so much time writing about it even though they are just as qualified to do so, and there are probably 10 other people who are much more qualified but who you won't hear from because they chose to spend the equivalent time improving their skills and gaining more experience instead of writing about what they already had.