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More generally, they're not being strategic about college. There's a lot of people who get a degree from a prestigious school because that's what's expected of
by ThrustVectoring 10y ago
More generally, they're not being strategic about college. There's a lot of people who get a degree from a prestigious school because that's what's expected of them.
The strategic way to use college to start a startup would be to independently learn how to slam out CRUD web-apps, go to Stanford for a single semester, meet literally everyone you can in the CS and business departments, then drop out. You could shop around for a cheaper education, but you'd pay a lot of money and spend a lot of time for a less useful product.
- glangdale 10y agoUm, maybe I'm stuffy and old-fashioned but I suspect I would run a mile from someone who popped up for a "single semester" to "meet literally everyone they can in the CS and business departments". You would probably wind up with a Rolodex crammed with other busy little networkers and not much else.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoYeah, I agree with you there - meeting people isn't the goal, just a thing you have to do to get what you actually want: building meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships. Starting that process with a bunch of 18 year old Stanford students is probably the best way to become a startup founder, and the easiest and cheapest way to jump-start that process is to go to Stanford for a semester (at least while you don't have the bona-fides that would let you succeed at a start-up anyways).