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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Why MBAs often make crappy entrepreneurs

"VCs don't give a shit about your PowerPoint deck."

...from Stu Wall's excellent, brief article on why MBAs often fail at entrepreneurship.

Then, once you've read it, if you find yourself yelling "Yeah!" at the screen, you might also enjoy watching this:

Comments on "Why MBAs often make crappy entrepreneurs"

 

Blogger mariella said ... (1:29 AM) : 

"Yeah!" "Yeah!"

MC

 

Blogger Ellen said ... (3:33 PM) : 

Oh YEAH!

Thanks for the heads up on both the blogpost and the TED talk -- I'm going to share the TED presentation with the group of parents at my offspring's school who are currently trying to put together a leadership programme for the pre-teen students that incorporates an entrepreneurial element.

Another excellent resource in this part of the forest is James Bach's Secrets Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar

 

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