Your defense is too powerful. Fortunately, the dismal science isn't actually that dismal... or at least, it doesn't have to be....
But you know what's the most difficult thing? The business. Oh yeah. I can code an app from scratch, but I still have to convince people to use it. I still have to plan the financials (by the way, how do start up plans look like? Guess-working?). I still have to market it. I still have to make profits.
Which brings me to the point. I can't stand this bashing of business people 360 degrees. There are bad business people as there are bad developers. There is bad culture in start ups ("you non technical piece of ...") as there is in business. It's all a matter of degrees and looking around.
Weird, because you just explained why they can't successfully do anything.
As I said, your defense was too powerful; in defending your position, you blew it up.
But hey, I am sure you guys can keep producing consumer apps till you will see a nice margin drop due to market saturation. Zinga teaches us all.
Regardless, I live near Edinburgh. Startups here are almost always looking for good enough for the right price, which is how I imagine almost all well managed starups act, outwith a very small bubble.
They can't ask businesses because if you go that deep you can't abstract away any useful info. You will get very detailed stuff that nobody will care about. Most of the times people want a petty theory that can be summarized in 10 words (read all the keynesian BS on this).
As for the MBA's. Start ups are picky, very picky. They want you to have a github profile, to have a phd, to be a god in what you do. This is mainly resource driven, but that's the fact. Thus, don't come telling me that start up culture is closer to workers because I will call 100 times BS on this. I have never seen a start up giving chances to somebody that does not have god skills, or somebody with a profile that does not involve years of coding or CS. On the other hand, my company took me straight from business school and is giving me the chance to grow from almost nothing (as I did not study finance).
Let's not generalize.