"Founders put a lot of weight in Shark Tank, and invest too much in getting there and performing."

I'm not in Silicon Valley and when I see things like this I wonder if that's a good thing. The fact that any of the things in this are things is a whole lot of "WUT?"

That's how I feel reading your comment. What are you trying to say?

I just see a lot of... well... the post's title was honest and accurate. I see a lot of "scene" navel gazing the strikes me as just bizarre and defocusing. If I were in the Valley I'd worry that the "scene" would be overwhelming and distracting to the point that I'd run the risk of spending a lot of time pursuing vanity metrics and things that only matter within that scene.

The long term risk here is startups building around the startup scene and therefore becoming dependent upon the startup ecosystem itself. This kind of circularity and economic incest made the dot.com crash a lot worse than it might have been and it could happen again.

Yeah, the chatter is easy to suck you in. The underlying issues do matter though: where should you spend your time? what is the most effective way to market your startup?

Cuban, Sacca, and PG didn't get where they are by tweeting. Sacca sort of did considering how his late stage twitter funds launched him to a new level.

Inside baseball isn't baseball. Agreed.