Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. The value of a college education. I am very passionate and on record about the value of education. Education is self discovery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

I don’t have an MBA. 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.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

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. Thus, relatively few MBA candidates enter B-school with meaningful entrepreneurial experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. MBA fine, but not required. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA. Understanding the 5 C’s to decide whether to get an MBA – after the jump. He says the MBA transformed his thinking. THE FIVE C’S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Education and expertise: formal and self-learning. Don’t believe the myth that a formal education is not an advantage – it teaches you how to learn effectively. In any career, an advanced degree, such as an MBA or PhD, will at least give you entrée into more opportunities. This is called the serendipity mindset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical. In my view, practical business courses in school are better than an advanced degree or MBA. You can win as a team. Join an existing startup for a reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

UCLA said that the space will be open to Anderson MBA candidates, undergraduates and graduate students from other schools on campus, and to faculty researchers. The school plans to run "demo days" and other events in the same space.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2009

Manian was at Broadcom until December, when he was let go after questions were raised about his educational background. Manian had said he had a BSEE and MBA at UC Irvine, which could not confirm those degrees after allegations raised by ex-felon Barry Minkow.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 31, 2016

I’ve been to TED twice, the holy grail of education and smart folks. At astUtemy, we build amazing content, video education mostly, and our library keeps growing! Then, perhaps my MBA and JD. No matter what situation you find yourself in, you have to keep using your mind, keep up with change, and learn as much as possible.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017? READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Sullivan became Rady’s founding dean in 2003, ahead of the fall 2004 enrollment of the school’s charter MBA class. Under Bob Sullivan, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego matured into its teenage years. Rady School is marking its sweet sixteen under a new leader, Lisa Ordóñez.

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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). Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. Thus began my marketing campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2017

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In mid-October, eleven college students will be flying to California for an opportunity that would be the envy of any Ivy League MBA candidate—they’ll meet the venture capital firm partners who will personally mentor them throughout the school year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2013

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Do You Need an MBA To Be A Startup Warrior? One of my first posts was entitled The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons. MBA’s are frequent targets of derision in the startup world, as their career expectations are often misaligned with the scrappy reality of most venture’s early days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pelv-Ice , founded by USC MBA graduate Jill Bigelow, won third place and the $10,000 prize. All in all, the event served as a great informational resource and networking opportunity for educators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and students alike. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Most schools also foster relationships with local executives whom they use to lecture in MBA courses, judge student business plans, and assign as mentors for spinoffs (I have done all of these). < Business plan creation.

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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. So the real question is – do we spend more of our time and limited resources helping our channel or educating and marketing to their customers. - .&# Again, I grouped them into related functions and then designed systems to handle the rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2014

It’s an unfortunate artifact of our educational system that young people spend a dozen years focused more on memorizing facts than the learning process, and then thinking that they will have all they need to know for the rest of their lives by the time they graduate. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

Marlon Nichols: We have spun up some programs, like our venture capital apprentice program, where we've partnered with Silicon Valley Bank to bring on MBA interns over the summer. She's from LA, and now is at Berkeley finishing her MBA. It looks you have some programs you have put into place to help in these areas?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The problem is that to really fix education you’d need to reform incentives and pay in addition to better teacher training. That said, they have 9 PhD’s and 4 MBA’s on the team. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others. My concern: teacher’s union and lobby. Pretty cool.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I'm actually an industrial engineer by education. One, is we're educating students on the value of entrepreneurship, and letting them know that cool startups exist in Los Angeles. We think we'll be looking for MBA and marketing interns as well, probably towards spring or fall. What is Students4Startups all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

We had a team of five MBA students working very hard on the product, and worked to hire a design shop, Siteplex, who helped us with the design, and the people on the did all sorts of things--from operational integration, to outlining the market strategy, to basically everything else. But, I realized it wasn't for me.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The Kauffman Foundation centers their work around programs for entrepreneurs and educational programs aimed at students from pre-kindergarten through college. Their investor bootcamps help educate new investors about due diligence, valuation, and more.

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