¶ … small company and brand from scratch. Owner is a woman from South America, with limited knowledge about business. She decides to go to college to learn economics while growing the company. Company produces organic products with raw material imported from South America
Some problems: Import and customs problems, branding problems, trademark problems happened
Company establishes good reputation, solid returning customers thanks to the knowledge and strategies the owner learned in college
Discuss: Education helps but are there any other factors contributing the result?
There is a poem entitled "All I really need to know I learned from kindergarten" (Robert Fulghum) with the poet's shrift being that education plays only an insignificant part to success. There have been many business tycoons who have never graduated -- or even attended business school and been enormously successful, Henry Ford being one of them. And numerous others -- graduates of the Ivy Leagues -- who became homeless addicts and out-and-out failures.
I disagree with the adage that "all I need to know I learned from kindergarten." Too many factors are involved here including the type of kindergarten the individual attended, the teachers and peers in that kindergarten...
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