Ask HN: What do you think about this Entrepreneurship program?

https://www.senecac.on.ca/parttime/pip-entrepreneurship.html

by canadiansoul • 18 years ago

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It's a con game. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

They're going to charge you hundreds of dollars per course for the service of rephrasing some business books and feeding them to you one piece at a time. And it's online only -- you don't even get a human teacher or a flesh-and-blood classmate, so the experience will be literally indistinguishable from just visiting the library and reading some books, except that it will be more expensive and the books won't be as good. In the end you will receive an "Entrepreneurship Certificate", which is a kind of anti-credential: In order to succeed in business you will need to hide this piece of paper from anyone you meet, because it will literally be less impressive than your work experience as a 14-year-old running a successful lemonade stand.

Just go buy some business books and cut out the middleman. You can use the leftover money to actually learn a useful skill -- like accounting or programming or nursing or cooking or A/C repair or paralegal -- or get a useful piece of paper -- like a certification in a field that actually requires certifications, or even an actual college degree. And your useful skill will help you to solve the hard problem: How do you build something people want?

bstadil• 18 years ago

If you need to take a course to learn how to use a CRM program you are in real trouble.

This is crock.

Ask HN: What do you think about this Entrepreneurship program?

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