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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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