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.

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Salar al Khafaji, a Dutch entrepreneur who went to school in Amsterdam, said it was much the same there.

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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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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.

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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.

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