Quote from: puwaha on December 11, 2014, 04:20:21 AM

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Quote from: puwaha on December 11, 2014, 02:56:47 AM

Quote from: mpmcsweeney on December 11, 2014, 02:25:38 AM

Your "business school 101" is really a high school class on keeping suckers happy. A good scam artist (let's leave the P word aside to avoid dumb word games) keeps the early adopters happy so the purse is nice and fat to handle the ups and downs of running a business that is legitimate on paper but exploitative and small-minded in practice.

This again? There are hundreds of examples of people doing very well without a college degree. Entrepreneurship isn't something that's learned in a class. You have to go out and earn your stripes. Some people have just got the knack. Is Josh one of them? The jury is still out, but he's started and sold off successful companies despite the naysayers here.

Wow, I take a long sleep to address some jetlag and some interesting characters come out of the wood work.

Although the first part of your statement may be somewhat factual, your second sentence is not.

Scott-

My second sentence was "There are hundreds of examples of people doing very well without a college degree." I'm pretty sure you aren't debating this fact. So maybe you meant my third sentence "Entrepreneurship isn't something that's learned in a class." What do you disagree with?

That was a question and not a sentence. It was tied in to your second expression, which formed your statement (first logical sentence).

Yes, I was referring to, "Entrepreneurship isn't something that's learned in a class."...

A successful and "true" entrepreneur (not someone who simply thinks they are) becomes one utilizing both real world experience gained from a proven history of hard work and studying the environment that makes up the market arena they are (or wish to be) involved in. It all comes down to socioeconomic research, college level math, and knowing the processes of determining the viability of any venture and how it applies to the structure of the ultimate goal. I could bore you with real business school formulas (that actually work) and excellent reading material to forward to Mr. Garza, but I don't think that would do any good at this stage. We are not in the 1990's or early 2000's anymore. These days, in our ever shrinking global economy, a business leader has to be much smarter than the average bear and not just have a perceived knack for whatever he/she believes is business. In reality, no one is that lucky or smart without at least some level of formal education and/or apprenticeship. Both of which Mr. Garza appears to experienced none of regardless of his unsubstantiated claims.

Scott-