Fortune asked me to write about the things I wish someone taught me before starting a company. There is a long list; in fact, there will be a class taught by me at Columbia College about this starting in about 10 days! (The class, “Venturing to Change the World.”)
My post is about two things: a) you can in fact teach a lot of entrepreneurship’s core skills, and b) in particular a key element is how you handle people (hiring, firing, decisions, disagreements, consensus, vision, sales, etc.)