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- tucsonsun13, on 11/06/2007, -4/+49I like boobs.
- jerryparid, on 11/09/2007, -2/+25They had the ability to get a college degree, its just that they didn't chose to do so. This won't make some back country red neck the next bill gates because he got rejected from community college. Gates dropped out from Harvard, Dell dropped out from UT Austin, Filo (Yahoo) out from Stanford. Wake up people...these articles are so pointless.
- ChromaVita, on 11/06/2007, -1/+19At first I was going to digg you down, but on the other hand boobs are the best things ever...
- krazz, on 11/06/2007, -0/+17College spelled backwards is egelloc.
- MalDON, on 11/09/2007, -3/+19This is exactly why I dropped out! Now, to hit it big with my top secret invention of magnetic pants. A belt is no longer needed!
- wang1011, on 11/06/2007, -0/+14What many fail to realize is that people like Bill Gates were smart enough to get INTO a really good college first
- naterpoke, on 11/06/2007, -1/+10impossible to argue against this
- treelovinhippie, on 11/06/2007, -3/+12I think it's quite possible for anyone to skip uni/college and go straight into entrepreneurship. The reason the numbers are so low is because so few people are brave enough to go straight from school to entrepreneurship... because society and the media have developed this idea that to be any standing member of society, you have to go to uni/college and then get a job.
You don't!
Sure, it's difficult to become successful as an entrepreneur. Especially a young entrepreneur, as they tend to get a lot of prejudice and always make a lot of mistakes which they have to learn from before making it to a "successful entrepreneur" - N256, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7This article is 100% true, everybody drop out of college.
Then maybe it will be easier for me to get a job. - thatsmyaibo, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7Exactly. There is a difference between dropping out of Harvard to pursue a company and dropping out of a community college.
- WolverineBlue, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7And if your business fails and you don't have a degree to fall back on, you're pretty much f'ed
- kalrhael, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6I think a lot of people are missing the point, The article isn't saying the dropping out of college is the road to success, it's saying that even if you don't attend college, you can still hit big. It's just like in the arts, many artists hit big relying on their own discipline and natural talent, many didn't earn their talents by attending school, (although it does help very much) it's just that if you have a passion for something, You're going to be successful at it, degree or no degree.
I think the amount of people that attend college will gradually decline As information becomes even more widely available. If you have a little bit of discipline, and have the knack for the trade. You can teach yourself. Video game developers are a good example of this, many of of those individuals are just young adults that were found in the modding community, just simple people who probably were still living with their parents. Then BAM! they end up working for a major developer or something. - eastcoast, on 11/06/2007, -5/+11No... I think you better stay there.
- melondoc, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6How about from HOMELESS to a billionaire? http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/2007/1 ...
- stklaw, on 11/06/2007, -1/+615 people out of MILLIONS.
- cuj0, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5mirror
http://www.college-startup.com.nyud.net:8080/colle ... - naterpoke, on 11/06/2007, -2/+6yet they would have gone no where if it wasn't for people who go to college.
gg - ZenMojo, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4The majority of small businesses fail in their first year. Good luck with that.
- robbh66, on 11/06/2007, -4/+8i'd look up "sarcasm" before you take those SATs
- dunderballer, on 11/06/2007, -2/+5Success doesn't require degrees but does require strong a commitment to continued learning. Degrees just happen to often be earned along the way in traditional paths.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3If your wealth formula is so perfect, why are you on Digg advertising desperately instead of raking in the millions? fool.
- SiNN4R, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I'm sold.
- inactive, on 11/07/2007, -1/+4This could be a motivational poster! "Successful College-Free Entrepreneurs: Not You."
- antitab, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Well-timed comic relief in a serious business thread. +1 for originality.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3The irony of Walt Disney being a highschool drop-out at 16 and what Cal-Arts charges in tuition.
- kinerry, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3But you could still start a new atari without one
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Yeah, those guys didn't need college.
Bill Gates needed nothing more than his father's deep pockets, his mother's social connections to management within IBM... and Paul Allen, the technical genius.
Steve Jobs managed with nothing more than Steve Wozniak, the technical genius.
What's the lesson here? If you want to become successful, simply find an undiscovered technical genius and latch on like a leech. It also helps to be born into a family with deep pockets and social connections. - Kurisuku, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3If you need an article to convince you, then you probably shouldn't.
- simpleid, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3... sure as hell did ... *
i know, i know - inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Exactly. Most of these people "needed college" - they just didn't need the degree.
- FatAmerican, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Interesting. I guess if you really know what you're doing you shouldn't let college hold you back. College can't teach you to be Bill Gates. Even college grads who make it big probably don't really need their college skills anymore. College teaches you to take orders and to think inside the box, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
- ZenMojo, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3Nowadays you won't get into Atari, like Steve Jobs, without an internship. You won't get that internship without going to college. As far as I'm concerned, college isn't the end-all, be-all of experience in life and I didn't even find it particularly self-defining.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -6/+8Just shut the hell up and get me my fries.
- Protector, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2Actually, I think Carlos Slim Helu is the richest, or perhaps at this point, there is a guy from India who might have surpassed both. Especially with the US dollar worth less than a Canadian dollar.
- guyincognitoo, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1College shows that you have the ability to be taught at a high level, and to apply that knowledge. Most of what you learn you won't use anyways, as you will be taught on the job.
- ayfour, on 11/06/2007, -0/+170% of Australias richest, self made and under 40 entreprenurs didnt go to Uni/College.
On another note, I think this quote explains this well:
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always
will solve the problems of the human race." - jthomp3120, on 11/06/2007, -4/+5when you have a clear vision and your responsibility to school is holding you back theres no reason not to pursue your dream. Any serious student isn't going to have the time to do original thinking if his head is wrapped up in what he really wants to do.
- peterinjapan, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Hmm, I am the founder of J-List (link in my profile), and while I did graduate from college, I can't say that I learned anything in college directly related to creating this wonky, fun company. Well, I learned Japanese, that came in handy, but I especially remember pooh-poohing learning polite business Japanese since I wasn't ever going to use it ..... and lo, eventually I had to learn to read and write contracts in Japanese, do business with a wide range of companies. and so on. Bottom line, university can give you useful tools, but whether it will all come together is up to your own timing, vision and what not.
- crestfall, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1i can think of more than a few people who would be completely without organizational skills, formal logic, and critical thought if they hadn't gone to a decent 4-year school. I guess it depends on what you study, *if* you study, and what your motivations are.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Ok, so there are 15 who did well. And you had to go back almost a century to find them all. There are millions who have not done so well without a college education. Odds are still strongly in favor of an education. Buried.
- xtc46, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2now make me a list of millionaires with college degrees...lets compare the lists and see which is longer.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Don't give him any ideas! I need his formula.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1"You don't have permission to access /college/15-successful-entrepreneurs-who-didnt-need-college/ on this server."
So I guess I am not allowed to drop out. - sandeepbalaji, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I think passion undermines whatever one sets out to do. Its not true that a good grounded education is useless but is an assurance that you will have multiple options in one's career.There must be several millions of people who dropped out of college across the world, but how come we don't hear about the 99.95% of them at all and just the people who struck it big....
An entrepreneur is passionate about what he wants to accomplish and sees an untapped oppurtunity...And if it means dropping out of college to get there..So be it.....Gosh..I went through college and b-school...before i decided to go entrepreneurial(www.Qiu-inc.com)...All the best to everyone who do it early in life :-) - Matrixsta, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Your Mom goes to College
- simpleid, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1They might not have finished or gone to college, but they sure are hell did educate themselves.
- crestfall, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I would like to add "ass." to SC's comment.
- warcin, on 11/07/2007, -1/+2and he is still waiting for his fries too.
- ZiggityZhang, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1There are also exponentially more who did both and were unsuccessful.
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