<p>I'm thinking about going either into engineering or business. This might sound naive, but i want to be an entrepreneur. Which path gives me the best opportunity? engineering or business? I am from a big business background and want to start a new business.
I am got around 95% in 10th.</p>
<p>Both of them are the same if entrepreunership is what you are looking for. Besides doing software, u would have a tough time owning a engineering business as the startup cost would be huge and nobody would trust you for consulting unless you have alot of experiences already.</p>
<p>Exposure to engineering and experience working in engineering might draw your attention to some need that needs to be filled, and be a great opportunity for a business venture. Business school might teach you how to make a business plan (as would an elective class in entrepreneurship), but it’s up to you to figure out what the substance of your business would be. A lot of times, no experience in anything means you open one of a million coffee shops, restaurants, painting companies, etc which are all extremely competitive and have small profit margins when successful.</p>
<p>A start up straight out of school for either major will be difficult, though not impossible. You’ll be prone to a lot of critical mistakes that someone more experienced might not be.</p>
<p>It depends.
If you want to become a general entrepreneur,
say you dont want to invent anything new
but just open a new business, perhaps with new strategy,
a business degree would be helpful since u need to do a lot of stuff during the start-up stage</p>
<p>But if you want to become a “technological entrepreneur”
meaning u want to invent something
Then an engineering degree definitely sounds better.
You can do a minor in entrepreneurship and attend the e-ship
programs provided by your college’s business school.</p>
<p>How to become an entrepeneur? Find an unmet need and fill it. There really is no best path.</p>
<p>Ohio State has an engineering entrepreneurship program and scholarship you might want to check out. Here’s a link to the scholaship info: [Choose</a> Ohio First for Engineering Entrepreneurship (COFFEE) Scholarship | College of Engineering](<a href=“http://engineering.osu.edu/scholarships/incoming-freshmen/coffee]Choose”>http://engineering.osu.edu/scholarships/incoming-freshmen/coffee)</p>
<p>Thank you all ! well which engineerin will you suggest me to do ?
Becasue mechanical enineering is just to deep and the topics taught there i dont think are very useful in future as a entrepreneur. So which engineerin you think will help me to start something new with understanding of technical concepts.</p>
<p>Or do you think the course techology, entrepreneurship and design at babson will help me ??? Will you suggest this course ?</p>
<p>Honestly, majoring in engineering (but taking a few business classes if you feel you need to) is your best option. Engineering majors dominate among successful CEOs of big companies. Plus you have a more valuable fall-back option. The business degree is losing its market value year after year.</p>
<p>There is an exception to all of this: if you’re going to a handful of schools, I’m talking about Princeton, Yale, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford and MAYBE a few others, where you will rub shoulders with the children of rich and powerful people from all over the planet and make all sorts of connections, THEN it doesn’t really matter what you major in so long as you play your cards right.</p>
<p>BTW, there is a lot of room for growth in the biomedical engineering field, assuming the health care bubble doesn’t pop before you graduate. :-D</p>
<p>thanks a lot man :D</p>
<p>I’ve looked into this a lot as I want to pursue this career path myself. From the plethora of books I’ve read (including bios of great entrepreneurs on both ends of the spectrum) I would say it depends on what kind of business leader you want to be. The simplest example in this contrast is the difference between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. Steve was a great visionary, made great products but failed miserably at running a business the first time because he only saw the business from the product side of view. Tim Cook was never a visionary nor well known but he slowly climbed up the ladder, never failed at running a business, and looked at the company from an operations point of view. </p>
<p>Bottom line is depends on what kind of business leader you want to be. A Steve Jobs or Tim Cook? A Julian Roberston or a Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerburg or Sheryl Sandberg? Read their biographies (in depth) to find your passion! Also notice that most of the time business majors end up as leaders but not entrepreneurs (low risk of failure but low chance for major success). Engineer entrepreneurs have a high risk of failure but a better shot at major success and world renown.</p>
<p>Avatarmage - What did you decide in the end ??? what did you end up doin ?
well i want be an engineer because the business topics i can just cover up in the MBA. So which engineering will you suggest me ? like i want to start my own product. When i look at mechanics i feel that it is toooooo core and boring ! anything thing else you will suggest me ?
thank you</p>
<p>Also i was looking for mechatronics engineering for my undergrad.
Which universities in USA offer this course ? And why is this course not offered in most of the good universities ???
Is this course good ??? or you will suggest me to do normal engineering courses ?
Thank u !</p>
<p>I am having the same thoughys.
I am an international student admitted to princeton and was wondering which enginering field would be better for entrepreneurship: I am attracted to Mech but it seems rudimentary with no inoovation prospects(don’t know !
!
I am thinking of taking entreprneurship courses+business too!
What do you think ?</p>