In my mind, a startup is a not a 'business' by any reasonable definition of that word. Steve Blank has the best and probably final take on this: "a startup is a

In my mind, a startup is a not a 'business' by any reasonable definition of that word. Steve Blank has the best and probably final take on this: "a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." And so an MBA can probably only deliver negative value insofar as it calibrates you to operate on well-defined problems in fairly predictable, slow-moving environments with ample resources at your disposal.