|
Konstantin posted:I don't think the degree will matter that much. A startup will succeed or fail based on the product, your customers don't care if you have a Harvard PhD or if you dropped out of high school, they care about how good your product is. The skills you learn while getting the PhD may come in handy, and it may help you secure early funding, but that's about it. I would say networking is far more important than perusing a graduate degree if you want to found a startup. Depends what you want to do. If you get a PhD in machine learning and write the best data mining algos, then getting into a Big Data (see IA Ventures investment thesis) startup would be a great way to go. On the other hand, if your startup is not very technical (e.g., Groupon, Yelp), you would be much better off prototyping things on a napkin and talking to potential customers for 6 years.
|
#
¿
Nov 1, 2011 23:20
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 2, 2024 02:39 |
|