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I strongly advocate a policy of "No MBAs" in a startup. The last thing a startup needs is someone who has little to no business experience, has a big attitude,
by resters 8y ago
I strongly advocate a policy of "No MBAs" in a startup. The last thing a startup needs is someone who has little to no business experience, has a big attitude, has spent the last few years on professional networking and partying, and who expects due to the MBA to be able to boss others around.
There are exceptions of course, but in my experience the MBAs want to network to bring in others from their school/program to form a management cabal. It's really bad news. We should also remember that if startups weren't a high status thing to work on these days, all those MBAs would be working for big companies and would have no interest in startups.
- wutangson1 8y agoHmm, sounds like you have some war stories (sorry for the knee jerk pun) from hbs.