To start a business, drop out first

A few days ago, I saw a short essay.

After reading, the first feeling is that such an article can be boarded the reader's Digest. I really was a long time did not see, so vivid and inspiring essays.

I translated it into Chinese, so please come and enjoy it. Of course, the original author's point of view is against the United States, in China does not necessarily work. The indisputable fact is that college degrees are becoming less important.

By the way, when Reader's Digest comes out of an IT edition, it's no longer for sentimental girls and housewives, but for programmers and engineers.

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To start a business, drop out first.

Author: Caterina Fake

A: Ruan Feng

Date: April 28, 2010

Original website: http://www.caterina.net/archive/001234.html

(Photo: Mark Zuckerberg,1984, Facebook's founder, was born and retired from Harvard University.) ）

After Etsy.com's board was over, I drove home with Fred.

In chatting, we find that many entrepreneurs are retired students. For example, Esty's founder, Rob Kalin, didn't finish college. For example, Twitter's three founders,--evan williams,biz Stone,jack dorsey--, do not have a college diploma. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is another example. As for the famous jobs and Bill Gates, needless to mention. As an angel investor, I have invested two start-ups this month, all of which were returned by students.

What the hell is this?

Speaking of it, university is like an assembly line factory, in many ways, not suitable for the development of entrepreneurs. When you send a student to college, he will only be trained as a scholar.

Cultivating entrepreneurs requires an apprenticeship model. The best way to learn to start a business is to start your own business, 2 to learn about the experiences and suggestions of successful people in the industry, and 3 to work in a start-up company, 1. There are very few people who really know how to create and manage IT companies, and a maximum of 1000 people. And technology is booming, and you have to be in the forefront to understand what's going on in the world. By the time you get through college, what you've learned is obsolete. Some booksellers have advised Chris Dixon to publish his blog's entrepreneurial article, but he replied that such a book was already an antique if it had not been put on shelves.

Listen to me, Fred. Further added, the basic skills of it entrepreneurship-design or programming-can be learned without going to college, and in fact most people learn by self-study. You need to know the whole industry, and you don't have to go to college, only through the following ways: 1 observe other startups, 2 use other people's products, 3 watch their ppt presentation files, 4 attend industry meetings, 5) the most important point, make your own products, and compare with competitor's products.

Nowadays, there are so many blogs on the internet, so many successful entrepreneurs are willing to share their experience and knowledge. As long as you are willing to mind, many things at your fingertips, do not have to attend lectures in the classroom. You can even ask many industry celebrities directly on the internet and get their own answers!

When I was in college, I studied English literature for many years, and almost enrolled in graduate school to study for a doctorate in Renaissance poetry. In that case, I am a writer, artist or scholar today.

Do I regret this?

No, I don't regret it at all. Because of studying poetry, I can't earn money. Of course, money can never replace those beautiful poems.

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Source: http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2010/05/dropout_entrepreneur.html