What are these intensive graduate-level studies of which you speak? Because it's certainly not business school. Although if you could get in to HBS then drop ou

What are these intensive graduate-level studies of which you speak? Because it's certainly not business school. Although if you could get in to HBS then drop out as soon as the tuition is due (not sure how this is structured) to go do techstars/yc or just your startup full-time, then you'd have the best of both worlds. Social status signals via the acceptance and drop out story, and actual experience via the startup. Plus, if you fail hard, it's not like they wouldn't let you back into b-school with a killer essay about what you learned and how you were now ready to "grow up" for the F500 gig and learn 2x2 matrices, PowerPoint buzzword bingo skills, and the type of frameworks that build nothing except little boxes around your thinking.