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On MBA's
- pclark 17y agoQuite a good analogy (special forces) although maybe a little stroking self ;) It's probably worth mentioning the "T" skill set where startup employees can do lots of tasks very well, and also dive deep in a specific skill.
- portman 17y agoThe plural of MBA is "MBAs". Adding the apostrophe makes it possessive, not plural. Grammar police out!
- uuilly 17y agocorrected, thx.
- paulgb 17y agoI prefer the apostrophe-free version myself, but for what it's worth, apostrophes for plural acronyms seem to be fairly accepted. Here's an example from an nytimes blog: http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=blog.nytimes.com/freakonomics&pos=Bar1&sn2=4c064693/12cbd2ee&sn1=830c3a64/99f17898&camp=nyt2010-circ-tr-bar1_international_366RU&ad=093009-TR_bar1_366RU&goto=http%3A%2F%2Ftimesreader%2Enytimes%2Ecom%2Ftimesreader%2Findex%2Ehtml%3FcampaignId%3D366RU http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&... Grammar public defense attorney out :-)
- jmm 17y agoThe debt that MBAs leave school with, and the peer push towards making it big (the finance crowd) create guys are just too singularly focused on the financial aspects of a situation, whereas many developers are happy to simply be working on a cool or interesting problem. Personalities can also be totally in conflict as the author mentions (I certainly wouldn't want to spend considerable time with the MBAs he describes), which can be a pretty terrible recipe for a startup "team." I wonder if the higher ranked entrepreneurial MBA programs are better at producing more palatable characters for startups.