Can a recent grad think about starting a company?
Q. How does a recent grad even begin to think about starting a company? A. Like any project, you must pick something you can succeed at and be well prepared to tackle it with adequate skills and resources. To start a business, you need a good idea, the ability to raise capital, and experience to manage the business. In our industry, you need to be technically astute and also be worldly wise. Being interested in business is a requisite, because that makes it possible to continuously acquire the skills required to deal with the broad range of issues you are likely to encounter and to cope with an environment that’s constantly evolving. It is simply incongruent for a technical person with zero interest in anything else except technology to start a business, regardless of how technically competent he or she is. I have benefited from being a regular reader of business books, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes. Reading can help you pick up a lot over time. I have als
