College is a way, not the way. Billionaire college drop-outs: http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/09/billionaire-dropouts/ http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/

College is a way, not the way. Billionaire college drop-outs: http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/09/billionaire-dropouts/ http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/09/billionaire-dropouts/ Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Richard Branson, et al. This doesn't include hundred-millionaires, like Woz, who went back to college and got a degree afterward. Having "something to fall back on" (a degree) seems a bit like saying, "not living your dreams is acceptable". Obviously one can be successful with a degree as well; but we're a product of our circumstances, and how hard we try tends to depend on how hard we have to try. Looked at another way, the effort you expend from 18-22 to get a degree may well be frittering away some of your most energetic and productive years. Assuming your course of study is actually difficult and rigorous, your degree is a real accomplishment, and to be lauded; yet it does not directly yield positive financial results. It seems easier to go back to school later and follow a prescribed course of study on a regular schedule than to found a start-up at a later age, with all its unpredictability and long hours. Electing not to obtain a degree is to accept a set of obstacles and challenges in dealing with others who place a premium on third-party certifications. The connection with entrepreneurship is apparent: entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.