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Category Archives: Education
Peter Thiel on dropping out of college — [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Business, business startups, college cost, college dropouts, colleges, collegians, dropping out of college, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, innovation, innovations, invention, inventions, investing, investments, Peter Thiel, startups
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American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that cares little for their social networking skills and more about what their labor is worth on the global marketplace. — [LINK]
“Peter Thiel may be on to something, but all of our kids just can’t up and quit college à la Bill Gates.”
Posted in Education
Tagged Bill Gross, college, colleges, Education, Peter Thiel, universities, university
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Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it.
Peter Thiel: It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people … Continue reading
Correlation gone wong? Kauffman Foundation study on education and entrepreneurship sparks controversy.
“The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“ More info.
Posted in Business, Education, Entrepreneurship
Tagged Business, Education, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation, startups
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NO CORRELATION BETWEEN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Those who are born without the silver spoons in their mouths are more motivated to succeed. UPDATE: Prof Panos Ipeirotis wrote this comment, at TechCrunch: “The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Entrepreneurship
Tagged Business, Education, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation, startups
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Scholarpedia – Search results for query “prediction markets”:
“No page with that title exists.” On that same page, those academic i****s link to Amazon.com instead of linking to Wikipedia. What a bunch of mediocre i*******s. This is so stupid. Another evidence why we should should not listen to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Research, Resources - References
Tagged prediction markets, Scholarpedia, Wikipedia
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The Singularity University looks at prediction markets and collective intelligence.
David Orban: In its ten tracks Singularity University (SU) tries to cover as much as possible of a vast amount of material. The specifics are steered by the track chairs, with a lot of input from both the students, the … Continue reading
The Singularity University + The Prediction Markets
Spot the 3 men on the right-side of the photo: – In blue, our good friend Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons; – In red, the Google guy in charge of open-source software; – In grey, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. So, … Continue reading