I think advice like this should be taken lightly. This writer simply says look at this or that, not realizing these guys are the exception, not the rule. What worries me is she gives life changing decisions without any data to back her approach.

Some data for you: 1. 95.1% of entrepreneurs had a bachelor degree or higher 2. 41.4% of entrepreneurs succeed on the first go (There goes the apprentice argument) 3. The average and median age of company founders in our sample when they started their current companies was 40. The standard deviation for this distribution was 7.7.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...