Which Would YOU Rather ?!

[peter_]

TERMS

In your undergraduate years,

• You started a music company (record label / artist management) at 19. It was successful, but your main client works full time now, and the pay isn't enough to be self-sufficient. You were the only employee, but made a lot of connections.
• You started an online retail company which was very successful, but outsourcing production to meet the demand was impossible due to lack of cash, and in-house production was too time-consuming while finishing undergraduate coursework, so you shut it down.
• You have held 3 internships with small entertainment companies.
• You have been the assistant manager of a large beach club. 
• You started and now run a much more automated online retail company, acquired a start-up loan, and based on first 3 months, you're on course to grow as anticipated in business plan. Not paying yourself yet.
• You have experience leading a group of 100 people, and have traveled to speak on their behalf.
• You are graduating college with a 2.7 GPA at age 22 and your major is Entertainment Business, but don't care about focusing on that.
• You visited a few graduation fairs and were told your resume counteracts your GPA by respectable enough schools.
• You are currently studying for GMAT

So, you have "full-time work experience," have set up legal entities, negotiated contracts, acquired various licenses, created business plans and acquired funding; but it is mostly with yourself, or one other person. 

 

DO YOU:

A) Go straight to MBA full-time for entrepreneurship?

Go straight to work for someone else?

C) Focus efforts building your company while still able to live at home?

D) A combination: explain. 

 

PS Yes, I am the hypothetical person.

 

• My thinking for MBA full-time right away is that I could skip over a few echelons.
• My thinking for working for someone else is that I am very personable and experienced in my own business setting
• My thinking for focusing in building my own company is contingent on being able to pay myself
• I've thought of various combinations as well, but would like to hear yours.

 

[hikarizx]

I think most schools consider "full-time work experience" to be work experience after completing your degree.

 

I would probably say a combination of B and C, if you can.

[AlphacentauriC]

I choose A. You are young, everything you want to do, you do them in time. pocketing the mba now, means that the rest of your like you are free to do great things etc.

[peter_]

Thanks, you two