[hugacow]

"This kind of shit lands on Craigslist so often that it makes you wonder what they actually teach at business schools."

Other than "business", they teach confidence, which for the most part is what wannabe entrepreneurs lack. Unfortunately, the salaries they provide (unless you are the cream of the class at Wharton, Harvard) aren't up to par with senior developer/engineer salaries, which is the reason many techs/developers that would otherwise do well in a startup because of their experience need an MBA to handle "everything else".

Many MBAs may come out of school wanting to start another Facebook, but they do have a purpose in life- and that is to have the education/experience/skill to handle the "business" side. Their purpose isn't (necessarily) generating ideas, though, which is a good point. Developers/engineers have plenty of ideas also, and not all of them good either.

[smoyer]

"Many MBAs may come out of school wanting to start another Facebook, but they do have a purpose in life-" ... Actually, I'm not so sure. It's my experience that the business types that learned by the seat of their pants are much more likely to succeed than MBAs (although maybe the MBAs would be better at understanding why they failed?)

It reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in "Back To School" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM. Notice that everyone's taking notes on his comments?