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Cost of entrepreneurship

Last night I attended a guest lecture on the subject of disruptive technology and entrepreneurship.  Lecture was free but it was used as a pitch by the University that hosted it to attract new customers.

The speaker was somewhat respectable fellow who happened to hail from India and spoke eloquently.   One of the key message was around how the professors in this university were ranked among the very best money can buy.

Cost of the MBA program mere $110,000 and oh we also buy some dinner if you have late class.  So now the math is simple-  is learning to be entrepreneurial worth the cost of entry?

That is assuming you end up being one.   What of those that do not?  or the ones that are not successful at being the entrepreneur?  Is that being a pessimist before even being handed the glass.

What I found strange is that people will bet big money on the glimmer of hope that they might just make a entrepreneurial debut and hit it big.  The university pitch I remember also included a slide (not from the park but one made possible by technology from Microsoft) with the picture of a hammock on the beach.

What is the obsession with being a disruptor?  Perhaps the presentation was a function of being hosted by a school in silicon valley. Here even janitors have a god given right to dream big and flush out their ideas and hit the jackpot.

I just think that schools have become a vehicle for promoting delusional notions rather than reality and it is inconsistent with what the job of a school should be.

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  1. Entrepreneurs usually don't attend lectures..to paraphrase some great words, "Those who can, do, those who can't, attend lectures"

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  2. akhir ye padhai likhai mein kya likhha hai...sab likha-chur(an) hai

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