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Do you think master degree in entrepreneurship is useless?

ProcessPro

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Hello,
I just wondering master degree in entrepreneurship is useless or useful for starting out own business?
Which courses should I take to learn more about entrepreneurship except collecting paper certificates?

Get a copy of The personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. Or check out his website. It should help you form your own answer to the question.
 
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As an example go for @biophases training when available. Just cut OPs costs again. OP can find plenty of very happy course former trainees on the forum I am sure.
I am too stubborn to take it, I have to figure it out myself.
Edit didn't mean any offence to anyone who takes the training, I certainly would but I have learnt so much from biophase and others here that I will go my own way shit or bust I think they say lol.

I have a Masters in Geotechnical Engineering. I bet nobody here knew or even cared. But I can build you a bridge or a dam if someone here needs one. :)
 

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Hello,
I just wondering master degree in entrepreneurship is useless or useful for starting out own business?
Which courses should I take to learn more about entrepreneurship except collecting paper certificates?
It's not useless for academia. But useless for starting a business.

The best entrepreneurs don't have a degree in entreprenuership.

This masters would be awesome if you want to deeply study entrepreneurship, but if you wanna be an entrepreneur you have to do entrepreneur shit.

Like SinisterLex said, there's a difference between calling yourself a thing and being a thing.
 

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I have a Masters in Geotechnical Engineering. I bet nobody here knew or even cared. But I can build you a bridge or a dam if someone here needs one. :)
Like you need the work lol :)
 
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Business degrees are not useless. They're valuable.

If you want to work in someone else's business.
That's the whole point of "Bachelor/Masters in Business Administration".

Ironically, it seems most people who graduate from business studies never end up starting any businesses their whole lives.
 

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I don't care what anybody says college degrees are worthless. Unless you are going to be a doctor or lawyer and even then it's overvalued.

Our education system in America is beyond screwed up.

Our government has created a synthetic bubble by guaranteeing student loans and the colleges have taken advantage of it by raising tuition, building useless buildings, raising salaries for deans and football coaches etc. All because of easy money and nothing to show for it. Yeah, the dean of the humanities department deserves a 200k salary to do basically nothing.

Economies change and evolve and our education system doesn't even acknowledge it and has failed to keep up with it.

If anything an education should be getting cheaper, and better, a clear sign that it has been corrupted and has failed. I mean computers and technology have gotten cheaper and better.

These days if you want a job people hiring only care about your EXPERIENCE not a piece of paper.

Terribly insane and sad what is happening in America today. It's hurting our economy by having 23 year old graduate with big loads of debt and useless skills.

My advice: Learn on the internet, be curious, learn immediately monetizeable skills, focus on how you can help others , learn how to solve problems etc.

Don't fall for this intellectual entitlement academia sells. It doesn't address market needs. It meets all the criteria for scam as much as people are resistant to thinking of it that way especially since it has been deeply conditioned in you.
 
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But for the love of all that is holy please learn grammar and increase your vocabulary, somehow.

Bad grammar makes you look like an idiot; good vocabulary is the mark of an intelligent, flexible mind.
 
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Depends on cost, where, etc...

If you got a full ride to Stanford or Harvard, it will be worth a ton.

But for the rest of us, generally speaking in America where such a thing will cost 6 years and a fortune, probably not.
 

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Fire up a Google Ads or Facebook Ads account. Don’t even “learn” the platform first.

Invest $5 or $10 every single day, getting visitors to a page. Maybe it’s a page you created. Maybe it’s the website for some local business.

Now try to convert that $ spend into $ revenue.

Bet you’ll learn more doing that over the course of one year than doing a full-time Masters.

This sounds like a great idea to not only learn this stuff but possibly test ideas I think.
 

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Yes, completely useless! I have a Graduate Certificate in entrepreneurship which I got only because I could apply those classes to my master's in Computer Science, which I have since decided to stop pursuing.

You will learn a lot more by reading and doing, than you will ever learn from professors that are not entrepreneurs themselves.
 
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Sorry guys. I saw The Matrix and Fight Club a few days ago. I have their quotes stuck in my head.

"Murder, crime, poverty...these things don't concern me. What concerns me are 500 television channels and some guys name on my underwear..."-Fight Club
 

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