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100 entrepreneurs who succeeded without a college degree

Posted Feb 10th, 2010 at 10:40 AM and seen
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Does college help you succeed in your career goals? Certainly. Is it necessary for achieving success? Absolutely not. Check out this top 100 list of determined entrepreneurs who prove you can reach your dreams despite a lack of higher education.

  • Abraham Lincoln—Lawyer, U.S. president. Finished one year of formal schooling, self-taught himself trigonometry, and read Blackstone on his own to become a lawyer.
  • David Geffen—Billionaire founder of Geffen Records and co-founder of DreamWorks. Dropped out of college after his freshman year.
  • Steve Wozniak—Billionaire co-founder of Apple. Dropped out of college.

See all 100 at Young Entrepreneur.

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Comments (6)

Feb 10, 2010
Budi Rachmat said...
GREAT post...!!!

BUDI R @ http://twitter.com/budi_rachmat

Feb 11, 2010
baldheadmedia said...
great Post! hope to be joining their ranks soon!
Feb 11, 2010
Daniel Kaneshiro said...
I am 40y/o and my COO is 21y/o finished early and will walk in May. Together we are the perfect odd couple to launch our new start-up. There's a great blend of school knowledge and street knowledge.
Feb 12, 2010
JohnKremer said...
This entry on entrepreneurs who did not attend college is excerpted from my College DropOuts Hall of Fame: http://bit.ly/aMxqEt
Feb 12, 2010
JohnKremer said...
I can tell it was excerpted from my College DropOuts Hall of Fame because the wording is almost word for word: http://bit.ly/aMxqEt
Feb 14, 2010
Ryuji said...
It would be interesting to see the percentage of dropouts in all successful entrepreneurs...

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