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I want to study business and wanted to know what are some good ways to study business at home if i didn't want to go to college to study for it.

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Thank you comment icon I am a young entrepreneur in High School, the best way is to find a cheap course on either entrepreneurship or a business topic of your choice, another option can be to reach out to small business owners and ask them how they go started etc. Lourdes
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Simeon’s Answer

There are a lot of helpful resources online. For instance, on Youtube, there are the channels UpFlip where Entrepreneurs are interviewed about the logistics and details of their businesses and Two Cents, which is a PBS channel on finance topics. Skillshare has a lot of great courses, including a wealth of business relevant skills. The most crunchy skills where you have anything to learn in a business degree at college is accounting and finance, so books on those would be very helpful and studied in detail. From my experience, business schools don't actually teach you much. It's more about getting the degree for the purposes of getting hired. Sadly, the courses themselves are often not very substantive, especially the more abstract it is. I had one class where the entire course was about memorizing this one flow diagram and being able to reproduce it in greater levels of detail. It was one of the hardest courses I ever took and I did not remember most of the information a week after the final. That being said, if you find a college with a course you like, you can "audit" it, meaning you can pay a small fee to attend the class and listen to the lectures without being on the hook for graded assignments.
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Brittney’s Answer

There are a ton of resources online (books, podcasts, newsletters, news sites, etc.) that you can read to start to get familiar with trends, common terms, issues, etc. I would start there to get up to speed with the industry you are interested in. However, the more helpful thing if you are trying to understand specific roles is to reach out to companies to ask for informational interviews. Most people are more than happy to hop onto a 30 minute phone call to discuss what they do on a daily basis and what their overall role is like. You can learn a lot about a role through a 30 minute conversation. The same goes for entrepreneurs - they can walk you through some of the biggest challenges and what resources they use on a regular basis.
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Karen A.’s Answer

You can buy business books and read on topics s of interest and build your own business library.

The online platforms like Udemy and Coursera offer classes that does not require registering for a degree program.
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Sriram’s Answer

To build your business intuition, it's best to start reading news articles and listening to finance-related podcasts as early as you can. I personally read the Morning Brew, WSJ, and NYT's Dealbook almost every day. If there's a topic you don't understand, let curiosity be your guide and start googling/researching those concepts.

Also, I personally found Khan Academy's course on finance really helpful. It covers basic concepts including careers in the financial services industry and finance/valuation topics as well.

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