Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

September 29, 2011 at 9:12 pm Leave a comment

Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

By Carol Tice

Does college get entrepreneurs ready for success? Or, is starting a business straight away a viable alternative for those who don’t want to slog through four years of higher education?

This question came to mind after recently perusing a small-business-focused infographic from the credit-card comparison site CreditDonkey. Among the fun facts about entrepreneurship in the graphic: Just over half of business owners have a college degree, according to recently released survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

This stat is particularly interesting because it would seem that entrepreneurs, on a whole, tend to have more education than the general public. Of the American labor force, fewer than half of workers don’t have a degree — 25 percent have only a high school diploma while another 19 percent attended but didn’t graduate from college, according to the Census Bureau.

It may be a chicken-and-egg question, but I’m betting that somewhere along the way the egg cracked and yoke got all over the place. Read More

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Entry filed under: Business, Business Coaching, Entrepreneurship, General, Personal development, Rising Entrepreneurs, Startups. Tags: College, Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?, Entrepreneurs.

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