Thought Sausage

So the Chicago Tribune decided to write an article about Ian and Travis and their successes with Fastservers.net. While it certainly speaks to the success of the company, the overall tone of the article speaks to a greater issue which I suspect was the real impetus behind crafting the article in the first place.

Business schools have long held the idea that for one to be successful in business, one must come from a business educated level. It's how they market themselves. It's how any college markets itself (in the "learn-a-skill-here-and-manage-to-sell-yourself-as-a-result" sense). But I guess we all got a chuckle when the professor in the article says:

"Still, learning how and why to obtain outside capital often comes with a formal business education, said Tom Tyrrell, a serial entrepreneur who is the chairman of the Elmhurst College board of trustees.

"Most businesses are started by people with a technology background. They take their product and begin to make it better, but they don't give enough thought to how to take it to the next level," he said."

Umm yeah. I'd go ahead and order you a wah sandwich with a side of cry fries Tom. Obtaining outside captial and "taking it to the next level" is exactly what killed off Fastservers.net's biggest competitors, not to mention the people who had the "formal business education' destroyed Proceed and are well on their way with Fathom Online (former companies of mine).

I'd go into a big diatribe on how full of shit the upper education system is and how inflated some of their egos are, but suffice to say, its high time guys like Tom and his ilk started to wise up to the notion that "the next level" ain't all its cracked up to be unless you know what the fuck you're doing with the level you are on.