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What do you guys think? How did you guys learn the business skills to run, scale and raise funds?

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• atonalfreerider 8y ago
  This article describes my life to a T. I'm a solo CEO founder of a small tech startup and I couldn't do it if I didn't have degrees and experience in both engineering and business. I would add one piece of advice: if you don't have the tech know-how you can teach yourself. I started with mechE and CAD in school and later learned how to code.
• j45 8y ago
  You never stop learning. If you stop learning, you're done. Mentorship throughout out ones career is invaluable. I am a fan of education, but on business, two thoughts - 1) Business is like swimming. One can study, talk, dsicuss, group project, all we want about business, but it's standing beside the swimming pool. Nothing teaches swimming other than diving in, and learning not to sink. No swimming instructor will succeed if you can't learn to float, and then move. The key learning in business comes from lessons (good and bad) from experience. 2) The peeople teaching the skills may have no relevant or recent experience in business. So you may be learning to practice the past. Today, if courses take 2 years to develop, and 2 years to approve, the material is often out of date by then anyways. This a real problem most insitutions are facing as other groups are eating their lunch.