Hello,

I’m a French entrepreneur and I personally started a crazy project : read 52 of the best businesses books in 52 weeks in an attemp to pass the Personal MBA (a MBA for less than 1 500$) in one year ( see my blog http://www.books-that-can-change-your-life.net/2008/my-crazy-project-read-52-of-the-best-business-books-in-52-weeks-and-post-a-weekly-review-here-on-my-blog/ )

The Personal MBA is a comprehensive list of 77 books (93 with the supplements) in 12 categories that is intended to deliver the 20% of the knowledge given in an MBA that give 80% of the results.

I’m an entrepreneur, and i have an entrepreneurship mind : I don’t care very much of a small piece of paper, I prefer to think and imagine and test my ideas and experiment and see where it can lead me in the real world. The knowledge and the self-discipline I’m learning with this project will help me in my quest and I think it is a really cool and practical counterpart of a MBA for an entrepreneur. No less no more

Hello,

I’m a French entrepreneur and I personally started a crazy project : read 52 of the best businesses books in 52 weeks in an attemp to pass the Personal MBA (a MBA for less than 1 500$) in one year

Olivier,

Cool idea. I think this is a better approach then spending big bucks (like I did) for an MBA from Wharton. However, I am not a huge fan of business books (see my entry “Why Most Business Books Suck”).

I do agree with your mix of pragmatic experience and real-world books.

Best of luck to you.

Uncle Saul

I’m a French entrepreneur and I personally started a crazy project : read 52 of the best businesses books in 52 weeks in an attemp to pass the Personal MBA (a MBA for less than 1 500$) in one year ( see my blog http://www.books-that-can-change-your-life.net/2008/my-crazy-project-read-52-of-the-best-business-books-in-52-weeks-and-post-a-weekly-review-here-on-my-blog/ )

The Personal MBA is a comprehensive list of 77 books (93 with the supplements) in 12 categories that is intended to deliver the 20% of the knowledge given in an MBA that give 80% of the results.

I’m an entrepreneur, and i have an entrepreneurship mind : I don’t care very much of a small piece of paper, I prefer to think and imagine and test my ideas and experiment and see where it can lead me in the real world. The knowledge and the self-discipline I’m learning with this project will help me in my quest and I think it is a really cool and practical counterpart of a MBA for an entrepreneur. No less no more

In fact, there’s higher risk involved in base jumping because a performer often has almost no time to fix any issues with his canopy (ie. line twists). Hence there’s no reserve as well – no time for it to open.

I would be careful with constantly saying “Big Dumb Company” though. It may give the wrong impression to prospective entrepreneur that competing head to head with IBM is a really easy task.

Don’t kid yourself. They may be “dumb”, but they have ridiculously abundant resources, as they waste more money on paper clips than you have startup budget.

Just like although we may have a retarded commander in chief and plenty of incompetent generals, we have tons of weapons and capital, so we’re not an army people should easily mess with.