<p>Hello. I'm very interested in becoming an entrepreneur but i don't know where to start? Is it necessary to apply to an entrepreneur focused school (Babson) or a general business school (UMich, NYU)? Thanks for the help</p>
<p>Nothing is necessary. Look at Bill Gates - the most successful entrepreneur in our times. He doesn't even have an undergrad degree.</p>
<p>The best way to become an entrepreneur is just to go out and do it. Nothing that you learn in a classroom is going to even come close to what you will learn by just going out there and trying to run your own business.</p>
<p>Babson is good though, because from the beggining of your freshman year, you are being taught how to manage a business. I'm going to NYU next fall, but that is because I want to go in to finance for a little while such as Ibanking before I start my own business.</p>
<p>Managing a a business has not a thing to do with entrepreneureship! Having what it takes to start, run and grow a business involves ideas, insight, risk profile and mostly things you're born with. A good B school can certainly assist in cultivating the skill set, but the idea of teaching someone to be an entrepreneur is BS in my opinion.</p>
<p>Hollaratmecollege Babson while ranked at the top of the entrepreneurship list is good but definetely not as good as getting a degree from Michigan or NYU Stern or Wharton in something besides entrepreneurship. It shows the entrepreneurship focus in reality has no real validity because there are more people with undergraduate degrees in other business fields besides entrepreneurship like Finance, accounting, managment, economics that have been successful entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Penn State is a top business school with very strong programs in finance and accounting among other business specialties which is what I'm going to use to help me out. </p>
<p>I've realized they are much stronger then Bentley's offerings.</p>
<p>Dunkaroo dont you have anything better to do then sit and insult babson?</p>
<p>didn't GATES get into YALE?</p>
<p>and then left. Because he wanted to do his own work</p>
<p>It wasn't Yale that Gates got into (and then left), it was Harvard.</p>
<p>Of couse that's really not as risky as it might seem. In fact, it's not particularly risky at all. Harvard (like most top schools) has an open re-entry policy, such that any former student can come back with little ado as long as they left in good academic standing. So if Microsoft had failed, Bill Gates could have just went back to Harvard. Sure, he would have ended up graduating later than usual, but so what? Somebody who actually did this in real life is actress Elisabeth Shue who went to Harvard, dropped out to pursue her movie career, and then when she was in her late 30's, (in the year 2000) went back to Harvard to complete her degree. </p>
<p>In fact, if I may digress, you might see this as part of a 'brilliant' strategy. For example, if you get into a top school, and don't go because you want to do something else, and then you later decide you want to go, you have to apply all over again. Admission to schools like Harvard are such a crapshoot that you could very easily get rejected even though you got in in a previous year. On the other hand, if you go there for a while, establish your academic standing, and then withdraw, you can go back. Yes, for graduate schools there are often time limits and other such restrictions, but the point is, it's far easier to re-establish yourself as a former student than it is to get admitted all over again.</p>
<p>You probably can't learn practical entrepreneurship in school, but you should still understand economics and accounting.</p>