Do I leave home, school and pursue my business?

I had an idea for a business my junior year in college. Then I met some friends that had entrepreneurial spirit like myself and we talked about starting the business up. In that summer I got a job as a Sales Manager for advertisement space in a magazine. I broke the national record in sales. I did it in half the time that was given to me to finish the sales. Before that I worked at Microsoft and was one of the top marketing reps in the nation. Using that experience and motivation, I got my two friends on board and we wrote a 52 page business plan with financial documents. End result: 1 million dollars in projected revenue with a 30 percent profit margin at the end of the year. We need 75 grand to make this happen. I've been pitching investors left and right and it looks like that money should be coming in. If we can make the first year successful, then it'd be time to use my sales skills to pitch venture capitalists so we can get a 15 million dollar investment to spread nationally. Then our revenues go up in the 100 millions. We have two and a half months to get the site finished, take care of legal matters, build content, take care of distribution, create advertisements and have focus groups for our website and advertisements. I have my hands full. Now here's the problem: I'm a math major and last semester was supposed to be my last. I go to a pretty hard school and I was taking 6 classes while doing all the stuff for my business. I ended up failing two of my classes and getting a D in one of them. I need to take two summer classes (5/26/09 to 8/12/09) and one more class over the next fall semester to finish. The classes are all night classes, but keep in mind they're all proof writing classes that have a 50% fail rate and are intense. Moreover, I have a great idea and I want to pursue it. I found a way to be faster and 90% cheaper than my competitors. I HIT A GOD DAMN GOLD MINE! But do I finish school for the hell of it? Do I just get the degree for kicks? MY PARENTS ARE GOING NUTS ON ME. I'm living at home and all they do is complain. They want me to not do anything for the business until I'm done with my classes. I'm fed up with them and with school. I want some advice. I know it's just three more classes, but something I hate even more than my parents nagging me, is the fact that people will think that I'm a successful businessman because of my education. My education had nothing to do with anything. I learned everything from my internships, talking to successful CEOs, talking to my potential customers and doing a lot of reading outside of the classroom. And don't say that a degree makes people take you seriously. People take you seriously if you want them to take you seriously.

6 months ago - 3 answers