You can go to school for years, you can work for some of the best entrepreneurs in the world, and you can prove yourself by moving up the chain of command before you start your own company. Or you could simply fake it until you make it.
In fact, if you were to ask a handful of the most successful people in this world what their secret was they would unanimously say, in one form or another, that they learned to play the system (read: fake it).
There is no better way to learn than simply doing it. Obviously, there is no One way to become a successful entrepreneur. However, one resounding theme that I have learned from the hundreds of interviews that I have done with entrepreneurs from around the world, was to “get out there and do it.” Nothing fully prepares you for being an entrepreneur, nothing that is except for being an entrepreneur.
Mistakes will be made, opportunities missed, but they are the same mistakes you will make even if you get an undergrad in entrepreneurship and an MBA in entrepreneurship. So why, waste the time?
Also, the formal approach is one way of showing how dedicated you are. That can easily be shown by going out on your own.
Fake it until you make it.
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Totally agree with you on this point.
It has worked in this way for me!