[kristiandupont]

Even though it's just a website, I think of HN as a community that I am part of. And as such, I am always saddened to see how people in here talk about MBAs. Sure, there are those that just want to get into business to make quick bucks but there are also smart, good people who want to create a business that just happen not to be technical. But who have skills that many developers don't (and often, I think, skills that developers don't realize that they lack).

And I have to say that one of my MBA friends who frequents HN (he might be reading this but I won't name names) frequently laughs at blog posts about great insight that some developer-entrepreneur had about customers or markets etc. that is considered really basic knowledge to him.

[clairity]

one highly visible recent example of this is thiel's proposition that startups should try to create monopolies and avoid competition. this is taught from multiple perspectives in the core curriculum of business school. every mba (who didn't just dial it in) knows this, so it's not particularly insightful to a b-school grad.