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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Then pursue the people and education you need to build a winning business. In my own experience with technical startup founders, I still find it hard to name one who was also good, or even interested in financials or business operations. Start today building a bigger network. Chasing and capitalizing on luck brings resilience.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. He was stuck on capital raising.

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For an Entrepreneur, an MBA is not King

Startup Professionals Musings

More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so maybe the education level is irrelevant. Consider it a waste of time.