> You learn how (and how not) to run your own business—on someone else’s dime. I have worked everywhere from startups where I was hired employee #1 to Fortune

> You learn how (and how not) to run your own business—on someone else’s dime. I have worked everywhere from startups where I was hired employee #1 to Fortune 50 companies. Odds are your own business will start small. You learn about how to run your own business when you sit 20 feet from the CEO and the sales team and finance and HR and marketing etc. You don't learn as much about how to run a company when you are the company's 104th Java programmer in that particular city. Maybe at a big company you learn about their particular, complex procedure that it takes to change one line of production code.