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Something to keep in mind: the MBA wasn't intended for entrepreneurs...way back when it originally was created it was designed for major corporations, like GE a

Something to keep in mind: the MBA wasn't intended for entrepreneurs...way back when it originally was created it was designed for major corporations, like GE and GM, who needed professional managers. Business schools and MBAs are designed to produce them. I'm not going to say that an MBA is useless, but it serves a specific purpose...and that purpose is not to foster creativity and entrepreneurship. Like Dave has suggested in the past, there's a need for some sort of EBA--entrepreneur business school. Steve Blank also talks about this idea...his point of view is that the E-School (as opposed to B-School) should be attached to the engineering department (as opposed to the business department). Here's a link to Steve Blank: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/10/entrepreneurial-finishing-school/ http://steveblank.com/2010/05/10/entrepreneurial-finishing-s...

snowbird122 16y ago
We have an entrepreneur focused MBA school here in Austin called Acton MBA (http://www.actonmba.org/ http://www.actonmba.org/). I almost went there, but decided to go to the University of Texas for my MBA instead. I learned entrepreneurship from several killer professors: Rob Adams and John Doggett. I am an entrepreneur and always will be, and I learned a tremendous amount from my MBA. It wasn't anywhere near worthless. In fact, I think it was the opposite. I feel that I can do any job in the realm of business or technology in big or small companies. Just like an undergrad degree, an MBA provides options. If you know you want to be a programmer and have the discipline to read all the programming books on your own, then you don't need that undergrad CS degree. Same with MBA.