why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Insight
MBAs Are Prone to Over-Researching Compared to Technical Founders
“I think it's just that MBAs, because of their nature, may be more likely to fall into the spinning too much research time mistake as compared to a tech founder who's going to be more likely to jump right in and build something.”
Insight
Universities Exist for Pedagogy, Not Creating Billion-Dollar Startups
“The purpose of the university. It's not to create billion dollar startups. It's to have a pedagogical experience for their students”
Assertion Partly supported
Harvard Business School Launched Its First Student Coding Club in 2017
“This year, for the first time, HBS started a club called HBS Coders. There's been sales clubs, there's been marketing clubs, there's been fashion clubs for years and years and years, but there's never been a coders club until this year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only 4 to 5 of 100 HBS Entrepreneurship MBAs Can Code
“In my class of a hundred students this year, and this is an entrepreneurship class for second year MBAs, the most, ah, ardent entrepreneur bound students take. Only, only four or five can write code out of a hundred.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Many MBAs Return to Startups at Their Pre-MBA Job Level
“In fact, I have a lot of my students who come from startup land and go back into startup land at the same level that they left after two years of spending a hundred something thousand dollars on their MBA program.”
Assertion Supported
Cloudflare, Rent the Runway, and Earnest Were Founded by HBS Alumni
“Whether it's a cloud flare or rent the runway. Or in earnest all three of whom were founded recently by Harvard Business School alums.”