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Most schools do a terrible job at teaching entrepreneurs and future small business owners. MBA programs are meant to prepare students for mid-level positions in
by alexkiwi 16y ago
Most schools do a terrible job at teaching entrepreneurs and future small business owners. MBA programs are meant to prepare students for mid-level positions in big companies that already have a set plan.
If you want to run a startup, you definitely need to unlearn your MBA.
- slantyyz 16y agoyou definitely need to unlearn your MBA. That's a bit of a falsehood. It's arguable that any degree gives you any real practical skills. I hear a lot of techies like Joel Spolsky on podcasts saying that CS degrees don't necessarily yield great programmers. But should people with CS degrees unlearn everything from school? No. Your degree is like a tool in your back pocket. An MBA can provide you with particular set of knowledge (depending on your area of study), some of which are useful to teach you how to -run- a business. I don't see why there is any need to unlearn that stuff. Revenue recognition rules, economics, financial modeling, business law, corporate taxation, how to write a business plan... all of those have some use in the real world, regardless of the size or type of business you run. That they are overpriced today for what you get is a totally different story.