McBride enrolled in an MBA program to incubate her new startup
Grace McBride · Startup Acquisition Stories with Grace McBride, Founder of Lucia · Sep 20, 2022 · at 19:23
Grace McBride, founder of Lucia, explains why she used an MBA program to launch her marketplace company.
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“I literally went back to get my MBA because I thought I'm starting a new company. I loved starting a company in college. It provides so much, so many resources and so much protection from like the real world. No one really expects anything of you yet. But you also have, like, these brilliant professors around you that can give you feedback, and a ton of, like, free help, etc.”
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