I feel compelled to speak up in defense of this guy. Fundamentally, all businesses are in the business of "selling shovels to gold miners". No one business offers a complete solution or path to riches. The task of the entrepreneur is to integrate the various products, services, financial capital and labor available in a market – package it in a unique (or commodity) way – and sell it.
There is a tremendous need in the marketplace for services that teach business skills. I'll tell you why: because I've worked with enough MBAs to know that the ones worth their salt didn't need the MBA and didn't learn anything valuable from it, and the rest simply developed their interpersonal networks to improve their skills at "leading through politics" – a recipe for mediocrity, certainly not a path to riches. Definitely very little in terms of practical, actionable, best practices, entrepreneurial "business sense" is dispensed through the majority of traditional educational programs
Agree completely. I'm primarily in sales and have owned businesses in the past. The number of web developers and designers I work with who have amazing talent and skill and absolutely no business acumen is staggering.
There is a tremendous need in the marketplace for services that teach business skills. I'll tell you why: because I've worked with enough MBAs to know that the ones worth their salt didn't need the MBA and didn't learn anything valuable from it, and the rest simply developed their interpersonal networks to improve their skills at "leading through politics" – a recipe for mediocrity, certainly not a path to riches. Definitely very little in terms of practical, actionable, best practices, entrepreneurial "business sense" is dispensed through the majority of traditional educational programs