{"id":7107,"date":"2013-09-13T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T10:36:02","slug":"learn-the-language-of-product-before-learning-the-language-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7107","title":{"rendered":"Learn the language of product before learning the language of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/09\/Dictionary818.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7114\" alt=\"Dictionary818\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/09\/Dictionary818-500x246.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/09\/Dictionary818-500x246.jpg 500w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/09\/Dictionary818-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2013\/09\/Dictionary818.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>In the USA business degrees are mostly graduate degrees. \u00a0And there is a good reason for that. \u00a0Unfortunately, this is not the case in Europe. \u00a0And this is not good for European businesses. \u00a0My advice is that if you are interested in working in business later on in life you should wait and not get an undergraduate degree in business out of high school. \u00a0Instead, for the first years of your career, it is much better to get a degree in computer science, engineering of any kind, math\/physics, biology\/biomedical sciences. And <em>then<\/em> get a degree in business. People who apply to work with us with undergraduate and graduate degrees in business tend to have huge gaps in basic knowledge. This lack of basic education handicaps them. They can talk about products but they don\u2019t really understand how products work. Their shallow knowledge about the functionality of products shows when trying to design or improve them. \u00a0Probably the only exception to this is banking. \u00a0As for the rest, a wider scientific knowledge is needed. \u00a0When you study business you study the <strong>language<\/strong> of business, finance, accounting, marketing. But if you can build a product via your engineering skills, \u00a0biomedical skills, coding skills, and on top of that you have a good command of the business language, then you are really in business.<\/p>\n<p>First learn how things work, then how to create them, then how turn them into a business. People do not succeed talking about money, they succeed talking about product.\u00a0Learn the language of product before learning the language of money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trillionfund.com\/documents\/10833\/139659\/Dictionary818.jpg\/c8c97b22-63d5-4774-92c0-068f502bb622?t=1371483355085?t=1371483355085\">TrillionFund.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7107\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA business degrees are mostly graduate degrees. \u00a0And there is a good reason for that. \u00a0Unfortunately, this is not the case in Europe. \u00a0And this is not good for European businesses. \u00a0My advice is that if you are interested in working in business later on in life you should wait and not get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7110,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}