Sure, you can take an entrepreneurship class, but it won't really prepare you for start-up life. Good old-fashioned experience is the key to learning this craft.
These days, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. To keep up with this suddenly cool career, entrepreneurship programs are now booming in universities across the country.
But pardon me if I look askance at the phenomenon.
Recently, two experts—Harvard Business School professor Dr. Noam Wasserman and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Victor Hwang—took opposing sides of this “Can entrepreneurship be taught?” debate. To oversimplify, Wasserman believes you can teach aspiring entrepreneurs informed technical processes to preempt historic start-up mistakes. He says, "We can teach founders to use (data) to avoid common hazards." His belief is that an entrepreneur can be taught much like an accountant, an engineer, a doctor, or a lawyer.
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