The Siren Song of Startups

This is an excellent article regarding startup mentality. Truth be told, every computer science student fresh out of college should start a software company with the goal of bringing a product to market. The experience gained from starting and running your own software shop for a year will surpass a decade of experience in a cubicle doing corporate IT work.

No doubt it is a great article. But its difficult for a graduate to find like minded partners who can learn together. Is there any such community available right now?

You could say that about jobs in general. They all have their value. I've grown to view jobs much more like an investment. There are safe bets and there are risky ones. Some have steady returns, some potential big payoffs. Each with its respective risks. And like you mentioned returns aren't just monetary.

So you really have to take into account your financial situation, what risk you can afford to take. Do some due diligence and see if it's worth making the investment.

I've seen people stay too long and incur more risk than they can financially afford with non startups out of loyalty. Whether it's a startup or not when a company dissolves the employees are on their own. It doesn't matter how nice the manager and executives are, it's usually out of their hands.

Priyanka,

There are lots of communities right now, especially if you have internet access. Participate in open source projects, or just start to write your own software, are some of the ways.

The most important thing that we need most of the time is diligence.