Ask HN: Grad School
It is approaching about that time where I need to decide on whether I should go to grad school or not (I am currently an undergrad). My future goal is to start a start-up, but I don't feel 100% about anyone else I know right now to be my co-founder. Therefore, I am stuck now on deciding whether it is better worth my time just heading over to Silicon Valley and getting involved there and hopefully meeting a co-founder (I have never been there, is this asking for a miracle?) or going to a school like Stanford or UC Berkeley, which would require me to take out a loan and be in some serious debt. I would probably go for a masters degree as opposed to a PhD since I am assuming a PhD is setting myself up to drop out at some point (I don't intend on it taking 6 years to find a co-founder). Is there any reason I should be thinking PhD instead? Also, how certain were any of you that you knew you had the right co-founder at the time of starting your company? I'm not looking for someone to tell me exactly what to do as much as give me more information about why one option may be better or worse than another from the viewpoint of someone who is currently involved in the start-up world.