How Startup Culture Is Killing Innovation

That was... weird. The article itself was interesting, if maybe a bit rambling, and if I'd read it without having seen the headline, I probably would have thought "OK, some interesting points there to consider".

But, knowing the headline was "How Startup Culture Is Killing Innovation"

all I can do is keep asking myself what just missed, as that point doesn't support to be supported - or even argued - by the article. The stuff about the importance of doing research resonates with me and largely rings true, but all that verbiage about "fear of failure" and "startup culture" seems completely disconnected from the rest of the article.

shrug

So why does research get such a bad rap? Because of fear. It’s not a fear of failure, though.

I'm not even sure I agree with the fundamental premise here. If anything, the recent rage in startup circles is focused around Customer Development and related methodologies, which are all about doing exactly what the author here is arguing for. CD pushes a mindset of "Get out of the building, talk to actual customers, understand their day to day life in detail, and understand their problems".

But regardless of which approach you take on this, I don't see how this issue connects to "killing innovation" or the whole "fear of failure" stuff from the beginning of the article.

Wow the worst title in history.