I was an economics major (also technical) who started his own company in college. Generally it doesn't help, or at least not that I noticed.
Economics is mostly theory about how the world should operate based on certain laws... supply and demand etc. They go through rigorous derivations using calculus and statistics. You might get a top level overview of the driving forces behind an industry, but in a startup that's hardly useful.
Also in microeconomics, you are taught how a prototypical consumer might behave under canned conditions. Not at all representative of the real world.
There's really a single law book for running startups, and the first commandment is talk to your customers. Literally everything else is bs, at least in the beginning stages.
Economics is mostly theory about how the world should operate based on certain laws... supply and demand etc. They go through rigorous derivations using calculus and statistics. You might get a top level overview of the driving forces behind an industry, but in a startup that's hardly useful.
Also in microeconomics, you are taught how a prototypical consumer might behave under canned conditions. Not at all representative of the real world.
There's really a single law book for running startups, and the first commandment is talk to your customers. Literally everything else is bs, at least in the beginning stages.