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Warren Smith

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Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

I suspect the majority would be no, but it's going to also depend on what discipline or area you're trying to go into.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

Like, as an entrepreneur, what would you study in college?

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

There's certain things you can study, yeah, but...

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

And a lot of this, honestly, it's you're studying other things and it's just kind of noise.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

Yep.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

I think what would you study as an entrepreneur?

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

I mean, how to structure LLCs and get less just like, but you can learn all that or study it and you can learn it in a very short period of time, like the bones of it.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

Like with filmmaking, which my background is in, like I teach a film class that's very, I mean, I think we, it's five classes, really like four information.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

The last one is the workshop.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

And in those four sessions, there are three hours each.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

We can cover pretty much everything you need to know, like the bones or the bare bones of filmmaking and filmmaking.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

And I try to go in also as to the business aspect, the business side of it, which is entrepreneurial.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

Talk about how to look to the pitfalls of distribution and how to get through these negotiations and not get ripped off.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

So there's certain, those kinds of things are very helpful to learn.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

But many of these disciplines are just not the hard, I don't even know what the word, the hard business practices are.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

It's just theory, which is fun and flowery, but it's not worth the money you're paying for it, I don't think.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

And it's the same with filmmaking because we're talking about prints and ads for marketing your movie.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

It's all social media now.

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

And the distributor's not even going to be... They don't have the capacity usually to crank out the social media because...

Digital Social Hour
I Dropped Out… And It Changed Everything | Warren Smith | DSH #1913

Social media doesn't work that way.