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10 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Never Enroll In College
The big debate in the entrepreneur community at the moment is whether or not college is needed for a successful business or career.
Journalist, Jason Smith, studies the reasons why entrepreneurs should never step foot into college, what are your opinions? Leave a comment and have your say.
The 10 Reasons Why College Is Not Meant For Entrepreneurs
1. You Will Be More In Debt
2. Social value
You can get the same social value by joining a club or an association to learn the essential values of teamwork without the college expenditure. You can also use social networking to reach out to people all over the world.
3. Restrictions on being more innovative
The best way to get a college degree is to get an honorary one after you make a fortune and a name for yourself, then an institution can honor you.
4. Still unemployed after college
Skipping college and starting your own enterprise will be a valuable experience that will put you head and shoulders above your college peers.
5. The use of backwards and traditional methods
6. Less hands on experience
As an entrepreneur, you set your own curriculum based on your passions and interest in life. You then develop a strategic plan to monetize your passion, you can learn the skills you require, follow the blueprint of many entrepreneurs who have succeeded without a college degree. An experienced mentor can steer you down the right path, most college professors haven’t experienced real success outside the classroom, that’s probably why they teach.
7. Rigid learning
However, entrepreneurs need to think differently, outside the box of conventional wisdom.
8. Less individualism
College tries to paint you in a box to accommodate society. You are expected to simply follow along like millions of others without thinking for yourself. The structure of college prepares you for a life of simply following rules dictated by others. Human beings are supposed to be free people with their own ideas.
As an entrepreneur, you can strive to create your own rules, not government mandated teaching or outdated institutional learning methods.
9. Smaller accomplishments towards your future
College only teaches you how to pass exams. As an entrepreneur, if you can create a product or service to market, that’s a real accomplishment that is worthy, most college graduates may never aspire to it.
10. Less risk-taking
College doesn’t teach the importance of risk, instead they promote security and a safe career. Entrepreneurs must take risks to determine their own path in the world. Entrepreneurs embrace the challenge of calculated risk in order to succeed.
Article By: Jason Smith | Addicted2Success.com
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Rs
Jan 8, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Its a simple narrative to point to the gates and Zuckerbergs of the world who did not need a university education to make their mark. However I would argue and the data supports the fact that the majority of successful tech entrepreneurs graduated with multiple degrees from a rigourous engineering, science or computing program (google, ebay founders as an example).
Jeanne Yocum
Dec 20, 2013 at 4:45 pm
It’s pretty clear that you haven’t set foot on any of the campuses of community colleges across the nation that are involved in entrepreneurship education. If you had, you would know that they are using experiential learning, including student business incubators, on-campus businesses run by students, business plan competitions and many other methods to help students learn the intricacies of being an entrepreneur – from opportunity identification, funding, team building, etc. Some even have what are essentially VC funds to help get businesses off the ground. All of this comes at a price that does not leave people in debt up to their eyeballs. I know this because I edit the journal of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE). I can give you example after example after example of students who have benefitted greatly and are already well on their way to success thanks to the education and support they received from their community college.
Passive Income Riches
Jul 10, 2013 at 1:22 am
This is quite an interesting articles for a few reasons.
The way I view it is that the overall level of education has increased globally.
Graduating from a college or university in this era is like graduating from high school say 50-60 years ago. Getting a Masters or PHD now is like getting a college/university degree 50-60 years ago.
I still think that there’s some value in education, but ultimately it’s how you make of that experience. Was it really a waste to go to college? Did you really learned and gained nothing out of it? Sometimes I think that it’s certain life experience that gives you the perspective of what you want or don’t want in life. It gives you a sense of realization. Perhaps you needed the journey to make some decisions to get to where you are today.
So, should you go to college or university or not? That’s a question that you have to ask and answer yourself.
Stephen
Jul 9, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Very good and relevant. I hope your message reaches more people.
Susan Eckley Ruch
Jul 5, 2013 at 4:57 pm
My Take: I do believe we need to go through our first 12 years of school. (K thru 12th grade)
We do need to learn to read, write, math and socialization skills. I did go to college straight out of high school in 1978. I am 53 years old. So, I can say this. I got my BA degree and when I graduated after 4 years and now to think about it I paid for so many stupid classes that had nothing to do with what I wanted to be, do or have. I had an English degree, minors in Political Science and Law. Now, what do you with an English degree? I went to work for a restaurant chain (i.e. Burger King as a Manager) I was working for someone else making their dreams come true, not mine. After getting sick and tired of working for corporate America in 1999 I decided to start my own businesses. In school and in college they never taught us “Leverage”
Over our lives we change our careers as many as 20 times because we are searching for what we really wanted to do. Even at 36 years old went back to college to increase my skills in business and accounting. I thought about this the other day. How much did I remember from college? Not much that had nothing to do with what I am doing now. I still found myself trading hours for dollars. We find ourselves going in a circle and end up in the same place we started. Also, when you own a business, the business owns you. In the past year someone showed me a different way to make $$ and realize my dreams. I believe we need to teach our kids a different way of making a life, not make a living. We need to teach them leverage. We all have all types of insurances (Life, car, house, rent, medical, pet) But there is no such thing as “Income Insurance” It took me a half a century to figure it out. I finally found something that pays me what I am worth and pays me for my hard work. College did not teach me this.
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Anya
Jul 6, 2013 at 12:34 am
I’m intrigued by your story, can you explain further please?
Passive Income Riches
Jul 10, 2013 at 1:26 am
Hi Susan. Totally get what you are saying. However, I also think that sometimes it’s those life experience that gives you the perspective of what you want or don’t want in life. It gives you a sense of realization. It helps you to realise what you want or don’t want to do. Perhaps that’s the journey that everyone has to go through in order to find a sense of purpose or meaning in life. Thank you for sharing your story.
Michael Berry
Jul 5, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Win or lose = growth = win
Kevin Martin
Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 am
The way I see it, if you want to take on a job title that society is already familiar with, then go to school. If you want to be an entrepreneur and forge your own path, then go out in the world and experiment because experimenting is how people usually attain unfathomable success.
MANGALISO NKUNIKA
Apr 18, 2013 at 1:19 pm
This is right and wrong at the same time.do you go to college to train your insticts or your social life?
jonathan
Jan 30, 2013 at 4:29 am
Some of the sentence structure in this article makes me think the author could have benefited from some college-level english instruction.
Nope
Jan 22, 2013 at 10:27 pm
This is a completely bs article. The author assumes that Bill Gates and Co are some sort of norm. Let me assure you, they are far far far exceptions. People who drop out or do not go to college do not do well. Sure, some might end up more creative for it, and even do something awesome, but to assume this is normal is idiotic at best.
Entrepreneurs need to be able to think creatively and harness their creativity into real world products. There are plenty of institutions that understand and foster this. Maybe the author went to a state school and learned a trade but to generalize college as such is ridiculous.
A final point, companies like Vemma are not bringing in “entrepreneurs” as they try and promote. Selling somebody else’s product is not and never will be entrepreneurship. It is a sales job like every single other one, you are rewarded based on how much product you sell. Bringing people in to sell under you (while almost a pyramid scheme) is also not entrepreneurship. Just like a COO of a big company does not claim to run his own company when he hires a new employee or starts a new division. Reps for these LLM companies do not realize that nobody cares if they make a bunch of money, its the fact that they try and manipulate their friends and family into working for them that is annoying as hell.
but ya dumb article.
TJ
Jan 4, 2013 at 5:43 pm
I completely agree with this post. Everything I’ve ever tried in college never worked for me because It was never meant for me. Feels good to be an entrepreneur
Simon Ipinge
Dec 28, 2012 at 5:55 am
Maybe in a Developed economy, one does not need education. But in a third world country..if you don’t get education or get to rub shoulders with fellow University students, who will soon be in positions of power then your chances are pretty much doomed before you even begin. In the third world you are not born speaking the language of English..you have to learn it, and of course business is done in that language.
WASEEM TAHIR YOUGOVI (@WTY_D)
Apr 7, 2013 at 11:03 am
agreed
Ron
Dec 28, 2012 at 5:49 am
I’m not a college graduate, I knew nothing about starting a business. My number one rule is, talk to other business people who have been there and done that. You can always tell the real successful from the ones who are not. Truly successful people will tell you everything you need to know and not fear the competition.
Lucas Williamson
Dec 28, 2012 at 5:37 am
As an entrepreneur currently running a small business while preparing the launch of a second brand/venture im the same wrestling market (scholastic) an going to school full time.. I completely agree with every point. But still i am still trying to juggle both running a start up and going to school. My parents, mother mostly has been biggest influence to continue with school. As for me i see benefit in both because I am working on my BSD in industrial design and im currently designing and preparing to launch these wrestling products into the market. Where s the line you ask? Well i would say once it hits the level of profitability that i can manage all those school loan bills. Then again I ask myself how much of school i can continue to put up with knowing what I have learned from getting to where im at.
AG
Dec 16, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I don’t believe that all career paths need a piece of paper. For the people that said you need to go to school to figure it out. Well I will give another point of view. Almost every single person that I went to HS with that attended a 4 year college is now in a dead end job. With the exception of one lawyer, a couple teachers, and a few in the medical profession. Those of us that skipped the wasted time of a 4 year degree are self employed. Most of us in art & music. The others in construction. While a degree will in fact get you a job its not necessarily a good one.
Jeannette Williams
Dec 16, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Maybe not, but there is nothing wrong with an educated society. A piece of paper won’t promise you a job, but it will give you a sense of pride about yourself and that’s priceless!!!!
RetroGrade (@HarjiSingh)
Jun 5, 2013 at 11:36 pm
LOL i hope your pride pays your bills