In my senior year at the University of Utah, I sat in a classroom where business, science, and engineering students debated for two hours whether a novel computer imaging technology should go after the oil and gas market or the medical imaging market. I had led the design of the course the year before, as […]
This is my second post responding to Paul Graham’s essay on university entrepreneurship centers. In the first I focused on what he gets right, while defending what I see as the best of what we do at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute. Then I read the responses of people I respect — particularly Bill Aulet, managing […]
Paul Graham, a co-founder of the influential Y Combinator startup accelerator, just published an essay arguing that universities should not build entrepreneurship centers, should not hire “deans of entrepreneurship,” and should hand any spare money to the people teaching computer science and mechanical engineering and molecular biology (agreed, btw). At one point he asks — as […]
