Title: -SLOWLANE- Better or worse university?
Sup TFLF,
You might’ve seen me already. I’m an inventor, and I’ve invented a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button. So if you don’t fancy cooking, you can select a recipe, put in the ingredients, press start and it will peel, boil, fry, mash and stir for you. Entirely automatically.
I have a decision to make - I can go for an honored, damn prestigious (top #7), but a paid university, or I can stay for a free university - and potentially have more budgets for my current and/or later businesses.
So here’s the deal:
I’m currently “studying” in a university in Slovakia - it’s a small country, quite educated but with cheap labor. Universities are free here. It’s a mediocre university here, some teachers are decent, some are not, 50/50.
And I’ve spent quite a while living in Ireland - and there’s a university called “Trinity College Dublin” and there’s a Masters program “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”. Trinity is an Irish Harvard, said to rank at 7th place in the world. It really is prestigious. They say that 50% of that program consists of studying, and the other 50% consists of speaking to already successful entrepreneurs.
Why go to an expensive university? Well, Trinity is quite prestigious, and world-changing entrepreneurship is the thing I was born to do - I have 5 entrepreneurs in my family. The Entrepreneurship program is literally the easiest choice for a masters.
But, maybe, just maybe my current business may fail. Either the FDA will have troubles with my machine, or I will accidentally infringe someone’s IP, or the machine is not valuable at all... I will just start another, but if that one fails (quite unlikely, actually), maybe such a degree will grant me higher positions in some job or whatnot. Although I hate the thought of it, I may be a CEO or something.
Also, given that I’ve read Unscripted , and TGGRE gives 127 principles that allow to deal with just about any problem in entrepreneurship, why not just throw university into deep trash can?
Unfortunately, I, @MRiabov, am a Ukrainian man. And they say in the news that Ukrainians who are eligible to go to war will be deported back to Ukraine. But students are not eligible, and I don’t want to send myself to a meat grinder. I have to stay in some university.
The program (there are some similar ones, but this one is likely supreme) costs 16k. As I’m a Ukrainian, I may receive some payouts, and that will be down to 10k.
Of course, I do execute on my business -12 hours daily, and I know exactly what I need to - even for Elon Musk type of businesses (mine is one already), but still…
Do you think going to such a uni is worth it? Will it pay itself off in a year or two?
Sup TFLF,
You might’ve seen me already. I’m an inventor, and I’ve invented a machine that can cook anything you want with a press of a button. So if you don’t fancy cooking, you can select a recipe, put in the ingredients, press start and it will peel, boil, fry, mash and stir for you. Entirely automatically.
I have a decision to make - I can go for an honored, damn prestigious (top #7), but a paid university, or I can stay for a free university - and potentially have more budgets for my current and/or later businesses.
So here’s the deal:
I’m currently “studying” in a university in Slovakia - it’s a small country, quite educated but with cheap labor. Universities are free here. It’s a mediocre university here, some teachers are decent, some are not, 50/50.
And I’ve spent quite a while living in Ireland - and there’s a university called “Trinity College Dublin” and there’s a Masters program “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”. Trinity is an Irish Harvard, said to rank at 7th place in the world. It really is prestigious. They say that 50% of that program consists of studying, and the other 50% consists of speaking to already successful entrepreneurs.
Why go to an expensive university? Well, Trinity is quite prestigious, and world-changing entrepreneurship is the thing I was born to do - I have 5 entrepreneurs in my family. The Entrepreneurship program is literally the easiest choice for a masters.
But, maybe, just maybe my current business may fail. Either the FDA will have troubles with my machine, or I will accidentally infringe someone’s IP, or the machine is not valuable at all... I will just start another, but if that one fails (quite unlikely, actually), maybe such a degree will grant me higher positions in some job or whatnot. Although I hate the thought of it, I may be a CEO or something.
Also, given that I’ve read Unscripted , and TGGRE gives 127 principles that allow to deal with just about any problem in entrepreneurship, why not just throw university into deep trash can?
Unfortunately, I, @MRiabov, am a Ukrainian man. And they say in the news that Ukrainians who are eligible to go to war will be deported back to Ukraine. But students are not eligible, and I don’t want to send myself to a meat grinder. I have to stay in some university.
The program (there are some similar ones, but this one is likely supreme) costs 16k. As I’m a Ukrainian, I may receive some payouts, and that will be down to 10k.
Of course, I do execute on my business -12 hours daily, and I know exactly what I need to - even for Elon Musk type of businesses (mine is one already), but still…
Do you think going to such a uni is worth it? Will it pay itself off in a year or two?
Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member:
Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts
Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.
You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.
- Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
- MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
- Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
- Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."— User Richard Peck
"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?
