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Do entrepreneurs need a college education? Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake may have argued that the best way to become an entrepreneur is to drop out of college, but Read Write Web profiles one college entrepreneur who disagrees. Jay Rodrigues is a 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania junior who secured Series A funding for his college-calendaring system start-up, DormNoise. “Don’t drop out of school, because for every Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, there are hundreds of entrepreneurs who drop out and go nowhere,” he advises. “At least if you stay in school, you’ll have an education.” But it isn’t easy juggling his roles as CEO and college student–Rodrigues says he works about 16 hours a day. “Be 150 million percent sure this is what you want,” he says. For more on successful college entrepreneurs, check out our 2010 list of America’s Coolest College Start-ups . How to stop being a control freak? Name a number two. For business owners who built their company from scratch, letting go can be hard. But the Wall Street Journal cautions that there are worse consequences than the fear of losing control, such as burnout or unexpected emergencies if for some reason you can’t be around to make sure things run smoothly. “Invariably an owner will hit a wall where they feel overworked and like a prisoner to their business,” says Daniel M. Murphy, co-founder of The Growth Coach. Ceding day-to-day operations to a number two can free you up to work on the big picture. Ideally, their skills and work style will be complementary to your own. What better time than now, adds Murphy, “There’s such great talent out there that’s affordable.” The man who fired Steve Jobs. We told you last week about the dangers of saying no when the founder of Apple offers you a job . Now, the Daily Beast tracks down John Sculley, 25 years after he engineered a coup at Apple computer to oust Steve Jobs. Sculley, unsurprisingly, feels bad about the whole thing, telling the Beast that he should never have been the CEO in the first place. Meanwhile, the website digs up testimony given to an oral history project by Arthur Rock, a VC who was on the board when Jobs got fired, that hints at a culture clash. “I believe [Jobs] had a goatee and a mustache and long hair – and he had just come back from six months in India with a guru, learning about life,” Rock said. “I’m not sure, but it may have been a while since he had a bath.” For a glimpse at what Apple’s board was thinking back when they fired jobs, fire up the Inc.com time machine, and check out to this 1987 Q&A with Sculley. How to build foot traffic. For one small business owner, the answer was bananas. Yep. Bananas . (Via the Los Angeles Times.) Oh, AT&T. The sole U.S. provider of wireless service for Apple acknowledged yesterday that the e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 iPad owners had been uncovered by a group of computer experts through a security hole in AT&T’s website. Gawker Media first reported the security breach, calling it an “embarrassment” that exposed “dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians.” Could the slip up further complicate AT&T’s rocky relationship with Apple? Well, Apple is staying mum on the issue, leaving it to AT&T to apologize and clean up the PR mess. Which type of entrepreneur are you? Tech entrepreneur and UC-Berkeley professor Steve Blank has winnowed the spectrum of entrepreneurship down to four major types: small businesses, scalable start-ups, large companies, and social entrepreneurs. Although seemingly very different, Blank demonstrates that the four types of entrepreneurs are all searching for a sustainable business model and all have common characteristics such as resiliency, agility, tenacity, and passion. The differences are most notably seen in each group’s risk tolerance, size and scale of vision, and personal financial goals. Hiring and firing deli-style. A CNNMoney contributor and small business owner herself, Vickie Elmer attended a crash course on SMB hiring and firing given by Zimngerman’s the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based deli with a cult-like following . There she picked up a few tricks she might apply to her own Italian ices business, Mity Nice. One of the hiring tests the deli employs is having most potential hires work a trial shift on a busy Saturday or what they call “Tilt-A-Whirl” in which they simultaneously interview multiple candidates. Other ideas came from the attendees such as asking job seekers to sell you a pen to gauge their sales ability. For more information, read our guide on improving your hiring practices . More from Inc. Magazine: Get this delivered to your inbox. Or get it on the Kindle Follow us on Twitter or Tumblr . Friend us on Facebook. Apply now for the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 . Apple – Steve Job – Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg – Caterina Fake

And on the 28th day, Apple sold its one millionth iPad. Not bad for a month’s work. It took 18 months for Apple to sell its first one million iPods and 70 plus days to sell its first one million iPhones. Does this mean the iPad is better than the iPod or iPhone? Is the iPhone better than the iPod? Nope, this is a lesson in how successful products begat more successful products. iPod sales fueled an ever better launch of the iPhone. The iPod and iPhone fueled an even better launch of the iPad. At this point, Apple could sell anything with the letter “i” in front of it and hit one million in a month. In other Apple news… The New York Post is reporting today that the Dept of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are looking into investigating Apple for anti-trust violations. The problem: Apple’s recent change in its user agreement with app developers. The new agreement forbids developers from using anything but Apple tools to build apps. “Naughty” as a friend of mine would say. We’ll see what happens.

Apple plans to shut down Lala , the cloud-based streaming music service it bought in December 2009. Lala stopped accepting new users today and will close on May 31. Thanks to its unlimited music locker and innovative pricing scheme, Lala had long been a favorite of ours. Rumor is that Apple will revive the service is some form under the iTunes.com label, but as with all things Apple, this is just a rumor until Steve Jobs walks on stage and announces it. Sponsor Given the date of the shutdown, we assume that Apple will make an announcement about its plans for Lala/iTunes.com at it’s annual WWDC developer conference, which is set to begin just a week after Lala shuts down. Until then, here are 5 online music services that either allow you to stream your own music collection or give you access to large libraries of streaming music. Some of these even allow mobile streaming, which is something Lala never offered. Streaming Music Locker MP3tunes If you don’t want to be limited to playing the music that the music industry made available for on-demand streaming and you don’t mind paying a monthly fee, MP3tunes is also worth a look. Just like Lala, MP3tunes allows you to upload all your music to an online music locker and then stream it. MP3tunes offers a web interface, mobile apps and support for a range of other devices like the Chumby, Wii and Logitech Squeezebox. As we noted earlier this week , MP3tunes now offers up to 10GB of free storage. Streaming Music Services MOG For $5 a month, MOG’s users get access to more than 5 million songs on demand. At this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, MOG also announced that it will offer mobile apps for the iPhone and Android platforms in the next few months. The service also offers artist-based radio stations that are similar to Pandora’s and Slacker’s offerings. Napster and Rhapsody While the name harks back to the early days of illegal MP3 downloads, Napster is now a pretty standard MP3 store that also allows you to stream any of the 9 million songs in its library. For $7 per month, you can stream all the songs in Napster’s library and download an additional 5 DRM-free MP3 files (more if you sign up for an annual plan). Rhapsody also offers 9 million songs for on-demand streaming ($10/month), but unlike Napster, it also offers mobile apps (iPhone and Android). Do-It-Yourself Sockso You can, of course, also use your own computer at home to stream music over the Internet. Simplify Music used to be our favorite service for doing this, but the company shut down last month. A good alternative to Simplify Media is Sockso , an open source program, that can be installed on any Windows, OSX and Linux machine with very little effort (though you will need to set up the port forwarding on your router). The application gives you total control over your music experience and you can even share your music with anybody else on the Internet if you feel like doing so (and, of course, you have the legal rights to do so). For a simplified version of this, also have a look at Opera Unite , which offers a built-in streaming music server for all Opera users. Discuss

ad network AdMob has released its March report . Surprisingly, perhaps, the report notes that advertising traffic on the Android phone has surpassed that on the iPhone. Android ad traffic in the U.S. was 46% in March of this year versus iPhone’s 32%. Sponsor Android’s ad traffic has grown 32% per month, rising from 72 million requests in March of last year to two billion last month. Last March 12 manufacturers were responsible for 34 Android devices though only two, the HTC Dream and HTC Magic comprised 96% of total traffic. This year, that 96% was shared between 11 devices. The Motorola Druid has the most traffic, at 32%. Although the fact that advertisers in the U.S. have elected to put more ads on Android than iPhone is a good indicator as to the desirability of that platform, Apple is still ahead of Google overall. Second quarter reports from Apple indicated that the company had sold 8.75 million iPhones in that three-month period. Android sold seven million in the whole of last year. Top photo by Gene Wolf Discuss

It’s hard to keep up with all the newly released movies and music these days, but a lightweight social network with a whole lot of smarts under the hood says it can now offer you personalized recommendations of new releases that suit your very particular interests. GetGlue is a semantic web browser plug-in that has, for years, been smart enough to recognize when you’re looking at the same musical group across different websites, be that on Last.fm, MySpace or elsewhere. The service recently added a stream of recommendations of music, movies, books, magazines, wikipedia articles and other things you might like. How can it tell what you’ll like when something is brand new, though? Today the service has launched a “new releases” section, where human editors rush to classify brand-new media. Then the semantic robots can serve it up to the right users, still hot out of the oven. It’s pretty cool. Sponsor GetGlue founder Alex Iskold says he’s learned a lesson similar to what formerly automated tech news aggregator Techmeme has learned: algorithms and user generated content can take you a long way, but there comes a point when it’s good to hire some dedicated editors. The service asks you to like or unlike a wide variety of things. It then uses that feedback to build a taste profile to compare against things it finds put into its database and find the stuff it thinks you’ll like. That’s harder with new releases, though. “When something new is coming out, we don’t know what it’s like, so you need to have proffessionals tag it,” Iskold told us. “We have two editors on staff who look across the spectrum of new releases each week. They draw the similarities between things in a deep way – the tagging system we use will be unvieled later. We use really eclectic tags to characterize what kind of zombie or vampire movie something is. We also use tags brought in from other systems and our users find cool new things really fast.” The end result is a nicely displayed stream of big icons for personally recommended newly released movies, music and books. You think you’re hip to your scene now? Wait until you’ve got a network of contacts, a semantic robot and real human editors all working together to bring you the freshest content in your weird little niche. To be honest, I’ve been testing it out today by switching from new album recommendations on Glue over to Apple’s Lala.com , where it’s easy to listen to full albums once for free. That’s not the way Glue wants you to use it, but that’s the way I like to use it so far. The Down Side It’s an incredible system, when it works. GetGlue knows though that there are some challenges in this kind of game though. First, it’s not easy to present this kind of flow of data to users without either overwhelming them or boring them. Many of GetGlue’s latest changes are focused on making the user experience more pleasant: bigger images, collapsed bundles of shared items, etc. Can the service find a balance between giving you strong-enough recommendations on one hand and regularly offering up new recommendations on the other? In past versions of the product, I’ve received too few recommendations to keep me coming back. Hopefully new releases will scratch that itch. Iskold also says that after “liking” only 15 musical artists, I’m actually much less active than most of the 400,000 registered users of the service. Personally, I’m more drawn to the Wikipedia recommendations on GetGlue than anything else. The new releases in music might be roughly in the same sub-genres I usually listen to, but that doesn’t mean they are any good. Finally, all this “liking” obviously begs the Facebook question. Writing as an ostensible Facebook competitor about that giant network’s radical innovations unveiled last week, Iskold wrote the following in a widely-read article here at ReadWriteWeb about Facebook’s Open Graph: “Time will tell where we land, but my gut is that positive things will come out of this. If nothing else, let’s give Facebook credit for innovation and re-imagination the Web.” Today he emphasized in speaking with me that Facebook is new to what it’s just begun to do, but his company has been doing it for years. There’s no guarantee that Facebook will get it right, he said. It’s hard to say for sure that GetGlue has got it right, either. But as a work in progress, it’s pretty darned good and today’s new additions are very interesting. Discuss