What To Do After Graduation?
You might be part of the quarter of the population that cannot be successful entrepreneurs if you:
- Have very low risk tolerance
- Low perseverance
- Dislike teamwork
- Just want to be a cog
- Don’t have work Ethic
- Want to get rich quick
If you don’t fall into those categories, and want to go on the entrepreneurial journey, here are the do’s and don’ts of the professor:
- Don’t expect much from your university
- Do at least one internship and a summer job
- Read at least five entrepreneurial books
- Get to know the players in the ecosystem as quickly as you can
- Spend an entire day in an incubator or an accelerator. Not just sitting around but asking people questions, shadowing them.
- Follow 5 startups
- Offer free help to a startup.
- Work for a company for 5 years. Generate ideas, understand the business, make mistakes on someone else’s money and try to be an intrapreneur.
You can watch the full talk watch on youtube.com.