The next Microsoft was a search engine. The next Google was a social network. What will the next Facebook be?
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You're one reason I wrote "so few" instead of "no."
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there's no one path. Broad minds are rich minds. Your comment was surprisingly narrow minded for someone with as broad a mind as you.
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It wasn't just "MBAs suck." It's an important and subtle point that the best startups grow organically out of the founders' lives.
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The really big cos weren't meant to be cos at first. They were just tinkering. That's harder for MBAs.
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I've seen the pattern over and over in YC interviews.
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ah, now I understand: you have a sample set bias problem. Agree MBAs who apply to YC are less likely to be on path toward success.
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do MBAs really do anything?
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The degree was designed to create the officer corps of big companies. They're probably good at that.
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Can you take a few Tweets to discuss how people with MBAs bring unique insights that *can* add value to startups? Cc
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It wouldn't be as much of a stretch for them to learn to be managers once the co got big. That's sometimes hard for hackers.
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And they'd be good at startups that intrinsically consist of management, like e.g. a delivery service.
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help with negotiations? Or leadership? Or hiring / team building? Or mktg channels or...? It doesn't define you, can augment your talent.
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As an investor do you see a founder having a MBA as a 1) positive 2) negative or 3) irrelevant data point for funding him/her?
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The MBA itself is irrelevant.
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I think this is the key point. A person is an entrepreneur or not, with an insight or not. Whether MBA or hacker or any other grouping.
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MBAs need pairing services (with tech talent) more than incubation?
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"Cofounder dating" is a bad idea. Cofounders should be friends before starting the company.
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An MBA is as much a degree designed for entrepreneurship as a History Bachelors. Perhaps less. Do History Majors need a founder match svc?
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Yes, they do. What I am describing is simply the friction for ALL non-tech entrepreneur, in a tech world.
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That's backwards. There's no excuse for being non-tech. Most value to tech startups is not developer talent, but it's all tech talent.
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In the consumer tech world today and for the last 5 years, the tech has gotten relatively easy so a unique consumer insight is the 1st value
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yes but i think SV is the biggest hypocrite. They'll say the above and still run the ground to just hire technical ppl.
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i know its easy to validate and measure the value of a technical person through samples, projects, github. Not so much for non-tech.
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