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Poll: Were You A Member of Deca?
2 points by mr_twj on Oct 27, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
My partner was a DECA member in high school but I wasn't. This fact made me wonder what percentage of DECA members go on to be entrepreneurs, successful or not, and of those who felt it prepared them for the harsh reality that is entrepreneurship. If you took formal business education this may come in place of DECA if it wasn't available or were not a member. I'm also curious of those who were not DECA members but pursued some form of startup life during high school or college.
I never heard of DECA, wasn't a high school/college entrepreneur, but am now an entrepreneur.
3 points
I was not a member but was a high school/college entrepreneur.
1 point
I was a member and was prepared adequately.
0 points
I was a member and was not prepared adequately.
0 points
I was not a member but knew DECA existed.
0 points



I have no idea what DECA is - I presume you're in USA? You could have at least spelled out the acronym for us.

You're going to get a lot of selection bias by asking HN. The number of $group members that aren't entrepreneurs but still respond to HN polls is going to be small I expect. Indeed IMO the only people _likely_ to respond are DECA members (as they'll know what the post is about) who are now entrepeneurs, so what's that going to tell you?


I'm not sure how well these are worded but assume current entrepreneurship as an underlying condition when not specified explicitly.




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