Let’s say you’re in your early to middle 30s. You graduated from college in the middle 1990s. You got into the wild world of Web business close to the beginning. You got caught up in it. You learned, you led,…
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Let’s say you’re in your early to middle 30s. You graduated from college in the middle 1990s. You got into the wild world of Web business close to the beginning. You got caught up in it. You learned, you led,…
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Do you think this is true: education trains people to do what’s been done before. It’s essentially a system that reinforces conformity and the way things have always been done. The new ideas and true innovations are more likely to…
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Last week I got an email from Chris Hearse, of studentbusinesses.com, asking my take on “what students and universities could do to prepare for a world in business.” And then on a breezy refreshing Saturday-after-the holiday in Bend, Oregon, I…
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Watch out. Entrepreneurship might be contagious. I see it a lot these days. A lot of my family members are involved in it. Then I go over to the University of Oregon a few blocks from my office, where I…
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The board room had maybe 15 or 20 people in it, most of us judges, some of us faculty and organizers, for a lunch meeting just before the presentations and judging started. Outside the windows, the campus of the University…
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Answering a complaint: no I really don’t think you need a business degree to start a company. I don’t have any hard evidence that people who have degrees are more successful than people who don’t — although I have to…
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One of the highlights of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford is the documentary on the previous year’s Entrepreneurship Week. If by any chance you can’t see the YouTube direct, click here for the link.
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David Miller at Campus Entrepreneurship has a very interesting post today about the Acton MBA founded by some University of Texas professors and entrepreneurs. Sounds like an innovative MBA program. That’s at THE MBA for Entrepreneurs? — Acton.
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Yesterday I had a delightful session with a group of Oxford University MBA students. This was at the Said Business School, an impressive new, modern installation near the railroad station. The students were even more impressive than the installations. Bright,…
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Paul Brown did a good review of various entrepreneurship programs last week in his story The Right Places to Learn Entrepreneurship in the New York Times. He quotes some of the highlights from Fortune Small Business, including recommended lists for…
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