A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim titled "Startup Lessons: Real World MBA." In this segment Andy reflects on the trade-offs of taking investment—complexity from added investors, potential loss of control via a populated cap table—and emphasizes that running a startup is a form of practical education ('real world MBA') that yields valuable skills even if the venture ends.
And some people just go ahead and take on that investment and try to push everything through. What does happen is that by the time you brought in people on board, it becomes more complex, more complicated. You've got people on your cap table who've invested quite a bit of money in your business, and maybe some of them might even want to call the shots. And if you then decide to call it quit, then you just have that. That on your, on your. In the records. But what you've done is that you, you, you've actually learned for three years. You've gone to mba. Three years. Mba. Yeah. Real world mba. So I don't think any of it was a waste. I think it actually empowered you with what skills you have now. What do you think?
