Entrepreneurship

cjones120 · 07-02-2009, 10:10 PM

Does anyone have experience with entrepreneurship? I'm attending University of Arizona (Eller College of Management) and their entrepreneurship program is ranked in the top 10 worldwide. To me, entrepreneurship sounds extremely risky but I want to do it.

This is my plan: major in accounting and when I'm a senior I'll do both accounting and entrepreneurship because its only a one year program.

I would like to start my own retail store that (kind of) would be like a Walmart or Target. Any advice?????

cjones120 · 07-03-2009, 09:19 PM

??anyone??

openedskittles · 07-04-2009, 02:48 PM

Do 5 years so you can take the CPA exam, pass it, bring more confidence to future investors as a CPA.

hmom5 · 07-04-2009, 06:44 PM

Entrepreneurs are born, not created at college.

jckund · 07-05-2009, 10:40 AM

"Entrepreneurs are born, not created at college."

Except at Babson... lol

cr_freak · 07-05-2009, 03:37 PM

is it really worth going to bason ? coz it not that prestigious...is it ?? (im indian so not sure) isnt it better to go to a better school like whaton or stern nd do entrepreneurship there even if it isnt as goos as babson ?? arnt job opertunities after babson very mediocre ?? (coz u need to work fr a while to build up captal right ?)

jckund · 07-05-2009, 09:57 PM

Babson College is regarded as the best entrepreneurship school in the country... It's basically an entrepreneur boot camp. I visited there and didn't fall in love with it, but some will. It's small, some of the buildings are old, and it doesn't exactly look like a "party school", but I'm sure that it will help you out in many ways. Just do some research on it. But if you get into NYU or Penn, those should be obvious choices.

yelena · 07-06-2009, 02:47 AM

I laugh at the schools that offer Entrepreneurship classes. As someone else said, Entrepreneurship is innate. You are either born an entrepreneur or you will never become one. Why do you think so many people who graduate with a Business degree end up being noting ( by nothing I mean not being the Business mogul that they wanted to be) at all? They later put the blame on the system but the truth is, the ones that make it out with a Business degree are the ones who were born to be successful in Business, they are the ones who were born with the business ideal in them. The ones that do not make it are the ones who study entrepreneurship and Business because they thought that their degree would have made them a Business/Entrepreneur material.

You know how some Maths/physics teacher would tell their students during the first day of class that if they don't pass xx exams, they should drop the class? If I were to become a teacher in Business school, I would say " If you come here because you hope that your BA/MBA will make you a true businessman/woman, then please don't come back to this class because here, we don't breed Entrepreneur. We teach the born-Entrepreneur the Business language that they will need to use in a formal world.

Japher · 07-06-2009, 08:30 AM

I disagree that entrepreneurs are born not made, it's the same with leaders (but that's a different thread).

Entrepreneurs are such because they have a certain tolerance for risk, and that tolerance can be taught. However, I doubt very much that it can be taught in a classroom, because to be risk diverse would not lead you to a entrepreneurship program to learn how to take risk; you'd learn that in the real world. Many things are only learned by doing (skiing, shooting, skating), and if the program does teach you by doing that chances are you never will.