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I am slowly adding more great investor and entrepreneur blogs to my RSS reader. Speaking of which, I am amazed at how many people do not use RSS readers. Some people continue to manually go to every blog they want to read. So if you don’t use an RSS reader, get one now.
I recently started reading Charlie’s blog, This is going to be big. In the past few weeks, he has a couple of great posts. He posted this one today:
We’re posting a job here that includes the following line: “An MBA is not only not required, it is frowned upon.”
I thought that was pretty funny. I am sure an MBA is valuable, but it needs to include some great experience while getting it.
I used to scalp tickets with a guy in college that was getting his MBA. Yet, I know he learned 10x more scalping tickets than he did throughout his MBA program. Hopefully you will have some good teachers that will learn you a thing or two and hopefully you get some real experiences.
I don’t know if I would say I would discourage getting an MBA nor that I would prefer a non-MBA vs someone with an MBA, but the actual value of one, outside of the corporate world, is little. If you want to be an entrepreneur, I would recommend starting a company or two, instead of “investing” $30,000+ in an MBA. You have $30,000 to piss away, so don’t worry about a few failures. Anyway, failures are awesome. I definitely learned more from my failures than I have from any particular successful venture, project, or idea. And if you get through the failures and still want a job, but don’t have an MBA to your credit, come talk to Charlie or me.
In another post, a few weeks ago, he include words to a song he calls The Start Up Song or “Sunscreen 2.0″. Hopefully you remember the Baz Luhrmann song with a similar name. His version was awesome and I cracked up while reading the entire thing. Since I was laughing, my wife wanted to see what I was reading, she got through a few lines, rolled her eyes and shook her head. OK, maybe you have to be a little dorky to enjoy it as much as I did, but there is a lot of good stuff there and I am sure any entrepreneur that is working in the internet space will love it.