One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree

Re:One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College... by light3 on Thursday February 26, 2009 @10:17PM (#496785)

Your second point is certainly not universal, some people do a lot of work during college.

If you know what you really want to do before college, sure go for it, but in most cases people have no idea, college is a good place to keep busy and learn about your interests.

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Re:One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College... by tonystubblebine on Thursday February 26, 2009 @11:01PM (#496817)

I was really talking about the specific work (or practice) that goes into being great at something, not about misspent youth.

Let's take a computer science degree and a ten year path to great (whatever that means). If you just measure by time spent, you're maybe coming out of college 5-20% of the way down the path.

But I'd argue that the computer science degree isn't specific enough to count nearly that much. Really, you're graduating as an broadly experienced non-expert who then has to put a boat load of time into developing a specific expertise.

The value of that time spent outside of college completely trumps the value of the time spent in college, even if the amount of time spent is equivalent.

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