Travis McMenimon wrote:
Should young entrepreneurs go out and get a real job after graduation, gain industry experience, then quit and start a company? Vs. Should young entrepreneurs just go out and start a company which they have the passion for and make mistakes while they are still young and have relatively “nothing to lose”.
While taking a job after graduation will get you exposure to the business world, it’s most likely not the kind of experience you need to be an entrepreneur. Starting a business is all about gumption, calculating risk, and ultimately taking responsibility for your own lively hood, and unfortunately there’s no way to learn that as a cubicle-dweller.
Jack on October 7th, 2004 at 2:06 pm
Thank god someone said it!. I’m still studying in university, and that matter is the everyday discution with my friends and parents. They say we should go to work to Procter, Gillete, Shell, Oracle, etc. for about 3 years and THEN start a business (after 3 years, oportunity cost!!!!!!). I’ve allways think what you have just said, if you go to work after school at least please do it at a small or medium company so you get more responsability, more access to information, etc. in order to really learn, because all the big companies have the work so partitioned that you end up beign part of a big system and learning nothing usefull for entrepreneurship purposes.
P.S.: I’m sorry about my english!, I live at a spanish speaking country.
Chuck on October 11th, 2004 at 7:46 am
My question is… if someone is entrepreneurial… why is an artificial date - college graduation - being attached to starting a business?
Why aren’t they working on their business while they’re in school? Or in one of the businesses that prepares them for THE business?
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Elizabeth Fletcher Brown on August 25th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I have found that a fast track to success in any entrepreneurial venture is to find a mentor in the industry you are interested in - preferably one who has achieved some of the specific business goals you wish to accomplish. There are many successful business men and women who are only too happy to “give back” by supporting the entrepreneurial dream of someone else. Why reinvent the wheel when somebody else had been there and done it?