Hi there.... I cannot speak to question b, but I have some very direct experience with question a that I would like to talk about for a moment. Like you, I dr

Hi there.... I cannot speak to question b, but I have some very direct experience with question a that I would like to talk about for a moment. Like you, I dropped out after my third year of an accounting degree to pursue my own business. It was the late 90s, the world of technology seemed to be one of limitless potential, and I got the entrepreneurship bug. So, I dropped out and followed my dream - this particular company (like yours) did fairly well and I got to exit with my head held high. After I sold my company, I spent the rest of my twenties working some interesting gigs and honing my skillset. But that unfinished degree kept plaguing me - I constantly wondered how much further I could go if I had a piece of paper behind my name. So, I went back to University and finished a marketing degree. I didn't learn a whole lot during the degree - business degrees are about as useless as you can get. But, I definitely gained value. Being significantly older than anyone else in my classes meant that my peers were other more mature students with work experience, graduate students and professors. That network is worth way more than the cost of tuition and made going back to school incredibly worth it. As an aside, that network actually helped me start my next business, which I launched a few days after convocation. That business failed miserably, so either the network wasn't worth all that much, or I was a bonehead...:)