How to run a successful start-up?

The bay area is populated with fanboys who read (blogs?!) about start-ups, talk about start-ups, write about start-ups, go to start-up shindigs. They talk big… real big. It’s like some weird unhealthy infatuation with all that could be.

Yet, hanging out at their day jobs, they do not produce at all. Reminder: step 1 is to actually do stuff.