You and Trompete are way too funny... I never said it meant a lot.
I run a pretty large operation without one...
What I said was...
"Feel free to show some credentials that makes you qualified to tell us why a bunch of PHD's, a university, a Harvard MBA with 40 years of experience in the field, and ran a Nasdaq listed company are wrong."
I do not think a piece of paper makes anyone "worth a damn". However, when you are getting backed by a university with exclusive rights, and a bunch of PHD's who agree to the collective meritocracy of what you are doing. Then you may be on to something.