Universities Exist for Pedagogy, Not Creating Billion-Dollar Startups
Jeff Bussgang · How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator · Jun 21, 2017 · at 20:06
Jeff Bussgang, Harvard Business School lecturer and Flybridge GP, explains to YC CEO Michael Seibel why university entrepreneurship programs have different goals than venture capital.
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“The purpose of the university. It's not to create billion dollar startups. It's to have a pedagogical experience for their students”
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