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I was thinking today about how the problem with so many of these "what I learned about entrepreneurship" articles is that they never ever offer anything close to what a business student gets taught in the first class of an "introduction to entrepreneurship" course at any b-school worldwide.

You could literally pick a random 19 year old business undergraduate with a C average at any random college in the world and they'd have more to say than the random Guy Kawasaki/Jason Calacanis/flavor of the day entrepreneur.



Huh. I was thinking the problem with so many "entrepreneurship" programs is that they produce few actual entrepreneurs.


Here's the real problem with entrepreneurship classes -- What's the point? People who take an entrepreneurship class are missing the point -- they're probably better off either taking more engineering classes so they can build something people want, OR taking that time and effort and actually working on something real.

I was president of an entrepreneurship society in college. It was great. I met a lot of great entrepreneurs, spent a lot of time THINKING about entrepreneurship, and met a lot of great people from it. But even today I kick myself... because if only I had spent all those untold hours on an actual startup instead, then who knows where I'd be now instead.

Reading/learning/thinking about entrepreneurship is meaningless and useless until you DO it.


I was making the point that the platitudes that come out of the mouths of many pundits are straight from the first day's class.


We can't be sure of your advice either: until you do something!




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