The heroes of entrepreneurship are often college-drop outs who left school to create billion dollar fortunes – think of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Mark Zuckerberg. Such is the power of this college drop-out archetype that some prominent members of the entrepreneurial community have actively encouraged potential entrepreneurs to not go to college at all. What should we make of the idea of the entrepreneurial prodigy? Is it better to found a company as a fresh-faced drop-out or as an experienced (and maybe older) individual?
