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by barry-cotter 5914 days ago
1. Don't do an MBA to do entrepreneurship. You would be far better off finagling your way into a job in an early stage startup, seeing what's going on and getting experience in a company without lots of structure and procedure. See spencerfry's take on what even someone who's not overwhelmingly technical can do in a startup[0]

2. If you do an MBA, do an accelerated one [1],[2]. If you're considering changing because you've plateaued in your professional growth you may just need a change of area and that's where MBAs are good, but if you have a Masters already you've spent enough damned time in college without doing more than is absolutely necessary.

3. UChicago has a CS Masters that I believe is more welcoming to students who don't fit the traditional profile for people wanting to do CS. I imagine it's pretty brutal though.

[1]http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do

[2]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020425140457434...

[3]http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_mbamainchart_...

1 comments

I'm very interested in the start-up culture and definitely agree that I've done enough school for the moment and am ready to get to work. I think the thing to do is just get back to coding and getting into the community to see where it can take me.