College vs Entrepreneurship

who needs college to be an entrepreneur?

Aren't all B-schools permanent start ups too?

Wasn't one of the main reasons as to why most of us are joining a startup or starting our own, because our schools sucked so bad? this may be strange to say, but why fix it (besides saving costs)? look at places where education is good (Japan, Europe,...) and look at their entrepreneurial environment... I don't know about you, but most of mine were just mind numbingly boring. When I got to work for the big companies, it felt more of the same.... that's why I'm trying to stay out of those sterile

Wait a moment! Universities are for people who can't start their own business and make money!?

If you love this community, I'm surprised you missed all the recent top-voted "unschooling" articles claiming that college isn't even a worthwhile investment anymore, and/or saying that starting a business is a better education for entrepreneurs.There are a ton of successful tech people in the valley that don't have more than a high school diploma.

Bigger issue isn't college vs. no college. It's the fallacy that you can artificially generate success via specialized incubator. Everyone loves to point to Jobs and Gates-like examples. Had Steve Jobs been in a Thiel-like program, would he have created Apple, or caffeine spray?

I buy into Thiel's ideas on higher education. I created a startup out of high school. It failed and I went to college the next year. However, the startup taught me more than I have learned in my first two years of school. Many of my CS classes are simply a rehashing of what I already know. In my experience, Thiel is mostly right. It is possible, easy, and cheap to educate yourself and turn it into startup. The problem is it requires a great deal of luck and savvy to turn the college-less pa

Great points!Most educational institutions prepare students for the average life style.However, to go beyond just comp sci curriculum most businesses classes don't focus on the true skills that matter in running and starting a business. They, just like in computer science, focus on what the majority of the population will probably be doing after graduation.When I decided that I wanted to do a startup and not join the masses in the corporate life, I did not have much experience or course

whenever this topic comes up i always think of the people who never finished college. bill gates, jobs, eminem, etc. i don't think people like that are very rarein the US it's not a big deal if you go to college or not. more important is whether you have abilityin one of pg's "creating a silicon valley elsewhere" essays he mentioned it may be more acceptable in the US for a PhD to start a startup than it would be in the UK. i think that sort of free-form climate is necessary for innova

Historically, it seems academics have created the technologies and then "high school dropouts" would pickup on that technology, apply it to the real world, and make a fortune. Obviously some academics have been able to their ideas to market, Google is a notable example, but generally it does not seem to work out that way.It is no wonder that the bright minds are starting to want to focus more on the business side so they too can make the fortunes. College is not necessarily an asset for that