It's more valuable to start with a huge corporation and then move to a start-up according to my personal experience. At a large software/Internet company, you

It's more valuable to start with a huge corporation and then move to a start-up according to my personal experience. At a large software/Internet company, you can learn best practices, how organizations work, politics, real team work and real challenges in large scale. And can make more connections that will help you for future opportunities and company name might be a great reference. But 1-2 years later, you have to move on. Because clearly, you'll see that you've started almost nothing, never practiced some fundamental architecture patterns (since your large scale cant scale with them), shipped less code. You are living in a comfort zone that you obviously cant even take a tiny risk.