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> I wouldn't advise people to try to start startups before about 23. Before that you should be exploring. Man, I wish he had written this five years ago. I fo
by RKoutnik 11y ago
> I wouldn't advise people to try to start startups before about 23. Before that you should be exploring.
Man, I wish he had written this five years ago. I focused far too early and had to spend a lot of time correcting that course. Finally in the thick of exploring and loving it. Yes, there's hints in other essays about this but the hard age limit says that in a way the others don't. I was a incredibly dumb smart student.
- tempestn 11y agoI agree that this is really important. I love seeing how popular entrepreneurship as an option is becoming, but it does seem one effect is that one effect is that young people are trying to start businesses before they really know anything about... anything. I'd like to think that I'm still young enough that this is coming more from memory of where I was at in my late teens and early twenties, rather than some kind of indictment of "kids today". It's just so valuable to get some experience before you go trying to start a company. For one thing, I imagine it would be much more difficult to manage people if you had never had any experience from the other side. (A varied set of experience would be ideal.) That's just one example of many though. So, if you think you want to start a company, that's great! Keep that goal in mind and work toward it. The first step would be to learn and experience as much as you can.