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Speaking at UH today

Rob Robinson, a business school professor at the University of Hawaii, asked me to speak to one of his MBA classes recently.  I did that this morning.

I mostly spoke about entrepreneurship in my life and what I’ve learned from running Blue Lava.  The students were awesome and they asked some great questions.  One thing that was different from when I was in school was that a lot of people had laptops in class.  Nobody carried a laptop to class when I went to university – and I majored in Computer Engineering.  I was also surprised that of about 10 laptops I saw in the classroom, only three were Mac.  I would have guess that there would be more.

It was kind of strange being asked to speak to an MBA class.  I never went to business school but I’ve given it some thought over the years.  I think if you had asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said yes, I’ll definitely go.  At this point I’m pretty sure I’ll never go.

As an academic exercise, I think it would be great.  I consider myself an eternal student.  Right now I need to buy a second bookshelf because I’ve got about 50 business books overflowing from the 200 or so I already have stacked.  And that’s just books I’ve bought in the last 2 years (no, I haven’t read them all – I’m working on it!).  Amazon loves me.

It would be awesome to go to school for two years and do nothing but study business.  But that would probably last about a month for me.  I’d be off starting a new venture about as soon as I’d settle into the academia.  I imagine that the coolest thing about business school is the people you meet.  What a great place to make connections and meet future business partners.

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