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Entrepreneurs Should Create A Degree – Not Buy One Off The Rack

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Entrepreneurs create their own jobs, why shouldn’t they also create their own degrees? As described in Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College? most young entrepreneurs benefit greatly from the college experience. Like a sheepeople, I dutifully signed up for the required classes. Custom Wharton Degree.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. I have recently written extensively on what I believe the 12 characteristics of an entrepreneur are.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Your Own Expertise

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I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I wrote about these experiences 7 years ago in a post I titled “ 73.6%

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. I put my money on the latter.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. What you gain: 1.

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How to Know if You Have ADD and What to Do About It

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I believe many entrepreneurs have ADD. So suck that every teacher who scolded us for not paying attention to boring classes or making people with ADD feel less accomplished. I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I write my presentations the night before.

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