3 ms·
Here's my general thoughts on the subject and the slides: - Dropping out of school won't make you more successful. It just ensures you won't definitively fai
by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
Here's my general thoughts on the subject and the slides:
- Dropping out of school won't make you more successful. It just ensures you won't definitively fail. You can't work 16 hours a day, build a company, and be in school full time. You'll end up half-assing two things, instead of doing one really really well. If you do decide to stay in school, stay curious and build "projects" for fun.
- MBAs can start innovative companies, but it's an auxiliary skill. It's a nice to have skill after having other things like: a sense of technical expertise, product expertise, having built a startup before, working at a startup before, etc.
- MBAs can make good day to day operations managers when the company is growing. That's often the problem as to why a lot of startups lose their way when they grow. So make sure the MBA here is also an auxiliary skill and the skills listed above exist as well.
- I enjoyed the slides until it turned into a commercial at the end.
- Go learn how to build a great product, get some engineering skills, and fail a lot. That's been my real education over the past 4 years. It's paid off way more than my over priced useless degree in Computer Information Systems ie- Computer Science via the business school. Spend tons of time here on HN. It has been one the greatest sources of networking and knowledge for me over the past 2 years.
- If you go to a top tier MBA program like HBS, MIT, Stanford, etc. you do have the opportunity to network / meet some smart connected people. Honest truth, that's kind of bullshit. As a college "stopout", MIT Enterprise Forum added me as their CTO in Florida. I now have access to their entire alumni network without the degree. If you're in the Valley go volunteer and help out with the Stanford/MIT VLab program. People make it seem like you can't network with people from MIT or Harvard outside of the MBA program. Guess what? That's horseshit. You can meet every single one of those people. They're actually dying to meet smart people like us.