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A large majority of business start-ups fail. A lousy idea, a bad location, poor record keeping. . . there are all sorts of pitfalls waiting to clobber the start-up. Existing higher education tends to focus on either the specifics of business (bookkeeping, tax law, advertising, etc) or the MBA type
program which seems aimed at training the next generation of middle management.
Why not a school teaching the basics in the skills needed to start a small business. Just enough accounting, inventory management, customer service concepts, etc to help get a business off the ground.
SCORE
http://www.brookhav.../business/score.asp
Organization Of Retired Executives [theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Just one of many such incubator programs. Therefore, baked.
http://www.slcec.com/incubators.htm
[Native Dancer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Business school doesn't already address this? But I sympathize: I felt my high school and university education was geared to me becoming either an academic or a manager in a large corporation, completely overlooking the more valuable role that small businesses play in the world. |
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Something along the lines of an old-fashioned apprenticeship, perhaps, where you work with the guy who runs the small biz and learn every nook and cranny of its workings. I suppose the reason this has died out is because too many apprentices just replicate what the masters were doing and become competition. |
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There's a lot of well meaning advice out there -- see link |
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Seriously baked already... A closer examination of some of the better business schools will show that they have these sorts of programs. |
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Croissant for noticing the need though. |
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If I understand [Mungo] properly, this
would be education before the person
enters the workforce (right?). |
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If so, I think this is a good idea as I have
thought vaguely in this direction. |
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Current educational establishments
gear people up to be academics, middle
managers, specialists or blue collar
factory fodder. The UK has given up on
craftsmen, for all the political puff. All
these are EMPLOYEES. |
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What we need to do is open the door
and possibility to kids to grow up to be
employERS. Without employers we have
no employees, except in the public
sector - the consumers, not producers
of wealth. |
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IMHO ALL schools should provide a
business equivalent of Religious
Education - Business Education - from
11-16 where kids are taught the basics
of types of company, the outlines of
economics (supply/demand), marketing
and have local business leaders come in
and give presentations on their
business and how they did it. |
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From 16-18 those not wanting to
specialise for University with A-levels
can then take further more specific
courses and should be permitted to
begin their business in parallel. |
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You will often find entrepreneurs are
sons/daughters of entrepreneurs, as
these are the people who are taught
that it is possible not to be an
employee. We need to get out of the lie
that has been spun to generations since
1890 that being an employee is
preferable to being an employer,
however small. I value a self-employed
person higher than any salaried
manager in a corporation. The manager
got promoted, spinning plates already
spinning, and more often than not
delegates the spinning to someone else
from his business-class lounge. A self-
employed person/entrepreneur got the
plate, the pole, learnt how to spin it,
got it spun up AND keeps it there - the
true wealth creators. |
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OK. One random idea each from the HB, let's go make money! |
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<aside> I once helped develop the online delivery of a course in how to be an entrepreneur. One of the guys I worked with at the time was a bit dyslexic. The client, a well known University, was a bit miffed when he saw the title on the front page: "Untrumpeter: Could It Be You?" </aside> |
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Yes, (timbeau) that is more or less exactly what I'm talking about. Not to get too weepy about it, but has anyone noticed that all the mom&pop shops have disappeared? I'm sure there's a great deal of advice out there on "how to get ahead in life", but somehow the megas appear to be winning and the small business is being eradicated. The best way to get ahead these days seems to be by buying stock in someone elses company. |
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I don't mean to be advocative, but over the course of fifty or a hundred years, there might be a very real problem in the deliberate dumbing down of people so that they make marvelous employees but would never have the idea of starting a business themselves . .. . |
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//self-employment is on the rise again, having reached a nadir in the heavily industrialized, prosperous 1960's and 1970's// |
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Ahh, 1967. I remember it well. After taking in a Viacom flick at the 48-megaplex my gal and I decided to get something to eat. Hmmm, McDonalds. . . Pizza Hut. . . Subway. . . . we trolled through the four mile parking lot of the gargantua-mall.
"Oooh, Wal-Mart!" I said, pointing at the familiar large blue box ahead on the left. I need a soldering iron. Do you think they'll have one?" But then again there was Home Depot, and Circuit City just the other side of Radio Shack. They might have soldering irons, too. |
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(nope, just can't leave it alone) |
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<reads saker's anno> Ooh! An Untrumpet. I think I'd like one of those. |
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