I feel like it would be a worthy first post to explain why entrepreneurship is important to me and why I want to start my own business.
Over the last two years, I have gone from being slightly interested in entrepreneurship to wanting to start a successful business before I graduate college. A big leap, I know, but entrepreneurship has always been a desire of mine burning deep down, although until recently I haven’t come to terms with how that would incorporate into my own life. The dreaded thought of slowly climbing the corporate ladder over decades has never seemed appealing to me.
It all started with design and development. Freelancing since my high school years, I have created web and print graphics for both clients and myself. I even developed and marketed my own website, which I successfully sold half a year later. For the last four years I have been working as my own boss, and this experience has given me a delicious taste of the freedom as an entrepreneur.
Interning at Box.net this Summer, I have seen the unique culture that startups can cultivate, and I can’t see myself working in any other type of environment after this experience. Talking to the many brilliant employees at Box who came from Google, their reasons for leaving one of the hottest companies to work for were due to the uncomfortable growth of their respective departments and the company as a whole. They articulated that the amount of stress and effort of dealing with the chain of command and corporate hierarchical structure was sometimes greater than the projects themselves.
However, despite all I’ve just said above, I would love to intern at a corporate (500+ person) company for the unparalleled experience and skills working in such a setting can offer, which I would adjust to apply at the smaller scale.
College is also arguably the best time to start a company with close to zero risk beyond personal investment of time and money. No rent, no family, and no real responsibilities. Why not now?
