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Joining a startup out of college is not hard. As I grew up, I went through the educational funnel to these types of jobs (McKinsey, Google, etc) and I found mys

by garply 17y ago

Joining a startup out of college is not hard. As I grew up, I went through the educational funnel to these types of jobs (McKinsey, Google, etc) and I found myself disliking the people around me and (especially in the case of finance / manage consulting) disliking the work they were going to dedicate their lives to. So I just never applied to work at companies I found distasteful. It was quite easy.

azeemansar 17y ago
But you didn't straight out of college, which is my point. I am in the same boat as you.
- garply 17y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean. I never applied to any companies when I was in college. I was courted by a few tech startups and almost joined them because they looked interesting and fun - but at the beginning of my senior year I decided I should make money on my own and just started laying the groundwork for that. I basically spent the end of my senior year blowing off classes and iterating through ideas I thought might be profitable. After I graduated, I continued doing that. 2 years later, I have successfully bootstrapped a profitable company. I don't think your solution will work. The people who should join startups don't prioritize brand value or the alleged security of working for a big company. They may prioritize compensation - but the startup world already answers that problem by allowing you to choose where on the risk scale you want to be (you can always start your own company if you're like me and very interested in compensation).
  - azeemansar 17y ago
    Oh, I misunderstood what you said; apologies. And I don't know if you're right; I work at a startup, and my search was almost exclusively relegated to VC-backed companies; in fact, manyt of my friends at startups went through a similar thought process. Given that, I would imagine it would work? Everyone is an entrepreneur, some just need more help than others, that's all I'm suggesting.

by garply 17y ago

azeemansar 17y ago

But you didn't straight out of college, which is my point. I am in the same boat as you.

garply 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I never applied to any companies when I was in college. I was courted by a few tech startups and almost joined them because they looked interesting and fun - but at the beginning of my senior year I decided I should make money on my own and just started laying the groundwork for that. I basically spent the end of my senior year blowing off classes and iterating through ideas I thought might be profitable. After I graduated, I continued doing that. 2 years later, I have successfully bootstrapped a profitable company. I don't think your solution will work. The people who should join startups don't prioritize brand value or the alleged security of working for a big company. They may prioritize compensation - but the startup world already answers that problem by allowing you to choose where on the risk scale you want to be (you can always start your own company if you're like me and very interested in compensation).
- azeemansar 17y ago
  Oh, I misunderstood what you said; apologies. And I don't know if you're right; I work at a startup, and my search was almost exclusively relegated to VC-backed companies; in fact, manyt of my friends at startups went through a similar thought process. Given that, I would imagine it would work? Everyone is an entrepreneur, some just need more help than others, that's all I'm suggesting.