A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which Steve Wozniak criticizes academic/business-only approaches to entrepreneurship and advocates for building working technical prototypes. He emphasizes that successful startups combine business skills with technical doers and produce functioning models rather than just written ideas.
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These days, entrepreneurship is taught as courses in all the colleges, and usually it's a business level course. So you've got all these business guys that, oh, my gosh, if I write some ideas down on paper, that's how you go about it, starting a company. And my principle is no. So many people in Silicon Valley got used to write ideas down on paper and then try to get some money. Try to get some money, try to get some money. Like we can just buy the engineering for it. No, I like the type of entrepreneurship that has actually created working models. Here is an example of something that works the way we want it, and we've built it, and we've got the talented technical people that know how to do it. And I think it should get to that phase. So the entrepreneurship, it's a combination of the business and the technical doers, the technology people.