Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. My literal response was, “She went to Princeton undergrad and has a Stanford MBA. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

My first response mentally was, “Of course!” Sometimes the discussion veers over into whether or not he or she should get an MBA before trying a startup. ” The point isn’t whether one should get an MBA or not – it’s simpler. I had invested in myself for years. I often say. “Look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In my view, practical business courses in school are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Of course, working for a startup is not like running one, but it will give you a feel for the lifestyle implications, the mindset required, and how things look from the inside out. You can win as a team.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. Fall quarter of Sr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since I’m a fan of real-world feedback, I was intrigued by the insights on differentiation in the classic book, “ Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Small Business Owners ,” by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer. The days are gone for the “if we build it, they will come” mentality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

Of course, it’s good to have both, but don’t confuse the two. You don’t have to have an MBA to understand that even the most complex multinational businesses are made up of five key drivers – cash, profit, assets, growth, and people. Even the best have mentors they really use. Understand the business, then add value.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

The company Winters was working for sponsored her MBA to Harvard Business School, and it was there that she came up with the idea for Upgrade. “I I also had custody of my 16-year-old sister, so I was managing my course load and taking these trips, and it was during one of the those rides that I thought there has to be a better way to do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? But remember what you learned in your MBA course – less downside / less upside … risk vs. reward. I received an unsolicited resume from a second-year MBA student at Stanford.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2014

Since I’m a fan of real-world feedback, I was intrigued by the insights on differentiation in a new book, “ Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Small Business Owners ,” by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer. Of course, working on perception can backfire if the differentiation reality isn’t there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Most schools also nurture relationships with local and former executives whom they use for guest lectures to MBA courses, judge student business plans, and assign as mentors for university spinoffs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Since I’m a fan of real-world feedback, I was intrigued by the insights on differentiation in the classic book, “ Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Small Business Owners ,” by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer. The days are gone for the “if we build it, they will come” mentality.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Watson, who holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $4.5 And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If I mean, there’s a number of things that went wrong throughout the course of his tenure that were never brought up. It’s not a compliment.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA). Thus began my marketing campaign. Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Most schools also nurture relationships with local and former executives whom they use for guest lectures to MBA courses, judge student business plans, and assign as mentors for university spinoffs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. An MBA is helpful, but not required. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Supplement course work with practical experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Look for evening courses, or special programs for entrepreneurs, like the ASU Technopolis program mentioned below, available to non-students. < Business plan creation. I’m involved with their community outreach program as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some formal learning is always advisable, but get beyond university MBA courses to professional seminars and case studies. Formal courses work best for basics, like a business start-up course or financial accounting. A mentor is someone who doesn’t let ego or money get in the way of helping. Formal learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. An MBA is helpful, but not required. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Supplement course work with practical experience.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Do You Need an MBA To Be A Startup Warrior? One of my first posts was entitled The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons. That was the implicit statement. He took the lean method past the startup world into a much wider audience.”.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 31, 2016

And of course I learned from the TED talks. Then, perhaps my MBA and JD. As the licensee and host of TEDxAmericanRiviera, I learned how to deal with some pretty challenging folks. Smart people can be really difficult. I also learned from the process. It was heaven. I may do it again. Lately, I’ve been building two companies.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

When I was an MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania''s Wharton School of Business, I was frustrated that most of the Professors in the Entrepreneurship Department had never been entrepreneurs. My courses are rigorous and demanding. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Some formal learning is always advisable, but get beyond university MBA courses to professional seminars and case studies. Formal courses work best for basics, like a business start-up course or financial accounting. A mentor is someone who doesn’t let ego or money get in the way of helping. Formal learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. An MBA is helpful, but not required. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Supplement course work with practical experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Some formal learning is always advisable, but get beyond university MBA courses to professional seminars and case studies. Formal courses work best for basics, like a business start-up course or financial accounting. A mentor is someone who doesn’t let ego or money get in the way of helping. Formal learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I, of course, knew nothing about business. We take MBAs. No amount of persuasion would work so I asked simply if I could be staffed on one of his projects to teach some of his MBA geniuses about computer networks since they were working on defining telecom product offerings for the Internet age. I was “technical guy.”

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

They are Janmaat Bastiaan, co-founder , from Netherlands but born in Japan, grew up in Singapore, worked in renewable energy investing in London’s Goldman office, and then made his way to California for an MBA at Stanford. Jack Dubie, Co-founder comes from Vermont and is a Stanford CS undergrad and co-term. Real Life; Not Virtual.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2010

Some formal learning is always advisable, but get beyond university MBA courses to professional seminars and case studies. Formal courses work best for basics, like a business start-up course or financial accounting. A mentor is someone who doesn’t let ego or money get in the way of helping. Formal learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2015

Since I’m a fan of real-world feedback, I was intrigued by the insights on differentiation in a recent book, “ Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Small Business Owners ,” by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer. Of course, working on perception can backfire if the differentiation reality isn’t there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. I later took a course with Barbara Minto (who taught McKinsey people) and bought her book “ The Pyramid Principle.&# This was a breakthrough for me. Often I had a very limited time. I’m glad I read it though.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course the dirty one took the shower.’ But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert. I guess maybe the clean one took the shower thinking he was dirty.’ ’ ‘No. How can you say that?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . Of course I do! As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2018

Since I’m a fan of real-world feedback, I was intrigued by the insights on differentiation in the classic book, “ Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Small Business Owners ,” by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer. The days are gone for the “if we build it, they will come” mentality.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

And I was very disappointed because, with the exception of one or two courses, the Sloan School was primarily oriented to Fortune 500 companies and to Wall Street—finance theory, that sort of thing. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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