Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Minor (don't Major) in Entrepreneurship

You know I'm all about student entrepreneurship.  It takes a very rare breed to start a company as a student or recent grad.  Today I was at lunch with my new Elon colleagues and Sean McMahon stated his opinion that students should major in engineering (or some other practical field) and minor in entrepreneurship.

Why did I do a business major as an undergrad then go get an MBA?  Should have done engineering then MBA if needed.  Actually scratch the MBA.  Use that money for runway to start a company and learn more.

Someone convince me since I'll be consulting my kids with that advice.


 

2 comments:

Mital said...

That's my law school classmate in your picture there, Dave Marrow. Very sharp guy!

Mital said...

A little more of a substantive thought on your post:

As "hard" and difficult as entrepreneurship is, a significant amount of entrepreneurial skills are "soft" skills (people skills, emotional intelligence, selling, creativity, leadership, passion, etc.)

- An Entrepreneurship major may best be combined with another major or minor in "hard" skills, or for a student that has or will attain "hard" skills / industry knowledge either before or after their formal education.