[wantrepreneur]

Then what do you suggest wantrepreneurs should study,if anything?I think this argument whether CS school is useless has been debated far too much.I do see value in developing the way of thinking and surrounding yourself with top people,considering you do manage to get in a top college.And this whole debate about the very high prices of the colleges is ridiculous,because even for a person coming from a really poor family like me,there are enough possibilities to get free or very cheap education in most of the world's top 20 CS schools,if they do believe you're worthy enough candidate.

[arethuza]

Personally, if you can get into one of the very top universities that have a track record for being the places where succesful startups come from then I'd strongly recommend it.

[wantrepreneur]

Would you mind sharing which in Europe are those?Because I've read quite a lot of founder stories and the only college I'd put on that list is Stanford.UIUC also seems to have a lot of tech entrepreneur and VC alumni.

[arethuza]

I'm not sure if there are any in Europe! [NB I'm in the UK]

Note that I'd love to be corrected on this point - I graduated in '88 and co-founded a startup after working in academia for 6 years and the help we got from the University we worked for was laughable (they asked if we wanted to lease a building!). However, we did meet our first angel investor through the university - he had done the same CS degree as me about 20 years earlier.