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<p>Actually, I am going to take a different, perhaps ‘irresponsible’ take (although I don’t think it’s irresponsible for reasons I will discuss below). </p>
<p>What I will say is that if you want to be an entrepreneur, then just do it. Now. Forget about worrying about what you ought to study in college. You should probably still go to college, if only to just ensure that you reserve your spot there (i.e. you can matriculate and then withdraw, which in most schools, allows you to return at a later date without having to reappy).</p>
<p>Here’s why I think that what I am saying is not controversial. To quote from Bhide’s *The Orgin and Evolution of New Businesses<a href=“2000”>/i</a>:</p>
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<p>"As Michael Dell, who dropped out of college to start Dell Computers, explained: “The opportunity looked so attractive, I couldn’t stay in school. The risk was small. I could lose a year of college.” </p>
<p>“How could [Microsoft founders] Gates and Allen have known which other programmers were working on a BASIC or how capable they were? They had to trust their abilities to produce a working BASIC first; if they had been wrong, they would have wasted just a few months of labor.” *</p>
<p>Or consider this quote by Paul Graham:</p>
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"I can’t imagine telling Bill Gates at 19 that he should wait till he graduated to start a company. He’d have told me to get lost. And could I have honestly claimed that he was harming his future-- that he was learning less by working at ground zero of the microcomputer revolution than he would have if he’d been taking classes back at Harvard? No, probably not.
…The advice about going to work for someone else would get an even colder reception from the 19 year old Bill Gates. So I’m supposed to finish college, then go work for another company for two years, and then I can start my own? I have to wait till I’m 23? That’s four years. That’s more than twenty percent of my life so far. Plus in four years it will be way too late to make money writing a Basic interpreter for the Altair.</p>
<p>And he’d be right. The Apple II was launched just two years later. In fact, if Bill had finished college and gone to work for another company as we’re suggesting, he might well have gone to work for Apple. And while that would probably have been better for all of us, it wouldn’t have been better for him." *</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html[/url]”>Paul Graham;
<p>The truth of the matter is that if you want to be an entrepreneur, then you should probably just put college aside and just do it. If you fail, so what? Then you can think about going back to school. Sure, you may have lost a few years of time, and some money. But you’re young, so you have plenty of time to recover, and the experience and knowledge you would get in even a failed venture will pay dividends for the rest of your life. If nothing else, you would be a far far more focused college student.</p>