Should a Student Quit to Start a Startup?

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Lindsay Gellman, Stanford Tells MBAs to Wait on Startups; Some business schools want fledgling founders to focus on classes, not companies. Wall Street Journal, Dec 3, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/stan ... startups-1449077572

Quote:

a new message from the school: Wait.  Worried that student founders have become so absorbed in their fledgling companies that they are missing out on course work and campus life, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business is asking MBA students to curb their startup ambitions until graduation and focus on getting their degrees. * * * 16% of this year’s MBA class founded a new company ]while a student] * ** *the vast majority of student ventures fail

Yet, "Plenty of schools continue to urge students to act when inspiration strikes. 'When somebody has passion, an idea and the timing feels right, we wouldn’t want to dampen that,' said Rich Lyons, dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.  Dartmouth has even supported student decisions to leave campus.

My comment:
(a) "Leah Edwards, who runs Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies * * * Stanford acknowledges it can’t rein in all aspiring founders. Still, Ms Edwards said she would like them to consider 'some big, hairy problem' to solve. 'We don’t need another app to order food.' "

hairy (adj):
"3a :  tending to cause nervous tension (as from danger) <a hairy adventure>
b :  difficult to deal with or comprehend <a hairy mathematics problem>"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/stan ... startups-1449077572
(b) There is no need to read the rest, because one can imagine there is no good answer.