In the absence of any formal evidence on whether business school education helps or hinders becoming a successful entrepreneur, I am inclined to rely on their judgement: business school education helps, if you want to become a successful entrepreneur.
Salar al Khafaji, a Dutch entrepreneur who went to school in Amsterdam, said it was much the same there.
In 1997, Jacobson and his partners joined with Russ Wilcox, an entrepreneur from Harvard Business School, to form E Ink.
When longtime entrepreneur and Columbia B-school adjunct professor Angela Lee founded 37 Angels, her eight-month-old angel network and initiative to train women to become investors, she began with a single stat.
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Even as a thirty-year-old entrepreneur and Stanford B-school alum, I still wrestle with choices I've made, and think actively about how I might mold my path to allow new expressions of that best self to emerge.
Tell my mom I'm quitting high school to become an entrepreneur: Priceless.
She is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business school.
If you feel that it would be better for you to follow your entrepreneur dreams and drop out of school or not go to college just for this time period, then do it.
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One of them is Jonny Cohen, a high school senior, celebrated green entrepreneur, Ashoka Youth Venture award winner, and creator of GreenShields.
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Trump University was founded as an online school and is now named Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
Another effort is food entrepreneur Kwan Liu's At-Sunrice school.
Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.
Feeling betrayed by their universities and their lecturers, some final-year students may now be wondering whether they should have applied instead to be apprentices of Sir Alan Sugar, an entrepreneur who thinks degrees stunt creativity and prefers to employ bright school-leavers.
But in school she also met her husband, Mark, an entrepreneur who started several businesses.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
They approached Robert Levy, a software and financial entrepreneur with libertarian views who in his fifties had sold his company and gone to law school.
Business school can give you many of the useful attributes you need to be a successful entrepreneur, says Aloysius Fekete, chief executive of London-based start-up MaxBips.
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Mr Kotter, an expert on leadership at Harvard Business School, based his book almost exclusively on the late Konosuke Matsushita, a self-effacing entrepreneur who, with no education, no money and no apparent connections, somehow managed to build the world's biggest electronics firm from nothing, beginning in the 1920s.
They would increasingly request time off without advance notice, and the first-time entrepreneur felt she couldn't say no since she wasn't paying them, nor were they getting school credit.
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