Before one reacts to this question as a loaded question, hear me out:<p>I've just been accepted to the inaugural OMS Analytics program offered by Georgia Tech. I was initially attracted by the $10K price tag, but I spent a large majority of my weekend thinking about whether it's still worth my biggest investment- time.<p>Apart from MBAs, I really don't hear of people who obtain Masters start their own companies. It's not necessarily a goal of mine, but I wanted to see what the HN crowd thought. Can one learn so much from this program (or similar) that one becomes empowered enough to start a "Data Science/Machine Learning/...etc. Company?"
Master's degrees are almost uniformly a waste of time. MBAs especially so. I know investors who consider founders with MBAs to be a negative signal.<p>Maybe this degree is different. But generally the biggest hurdles to becoming an entrepreneur are (1) cash and (2) access to a target market.