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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

InfoChachkie

Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. As I stated in my Quora answer, "hate" is the wrong word.

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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

InfoChachkie

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. We kicked off Project Impact and 2012, and we’ve been thrilled by the response.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. We took $2.3