I am done. I give up
Having done several options -- entrepreneurship, job, internal entrepreneurship, and consulting, my advice:<p>- Entrepreneurship isn&#x27;t a lifestyle. Stay in a job unless you have a good idea and are ready to execute.<p>- Try your idea internally. Starting a new product in a company is easier than outside. It doesn&#x27;t have a $1B upside, but it has enough upside, in all respects (not just financial -- learning, credibility, etc.).<p>- If that doesn&#x27;t pan out, go external only once you&#x27;re pretty confident of success.<p>My experience is that entrepreneurship isn&#x27;t so much hard or take luck, as it takes a lot of groundwork:<p>- You want a diverse set of skills. Management. Finance. Sales. Technical. Legal. Market research. Etc. It&#x27;s not a place for specialists, and it takes time to develop those skills. You also ought to enjoy (or at least not hate) most of them.<p>- You want good market timing, which comes with experience.<p>- You want a good idea with traction. That&#x27;s where nights &#x2F; weekends fit in. Nights &#x2F; weekends don&#x27;t give enough time for a successful startup, but they give enough to do early prototyping.<p>Doing a (failed) startup as a student is a good learning experience. I wish I had done it. I don&#x27;t wish I had done it three times, or as an adult.<p>Oh, and selling false dreams is part of being a successful entrepreneur. You&#x27;ll get zero customers if people think you&#x27;re on the verge of going broke. Every business I&#x27;ve seen takes a &quot;fake it until you make it approach.&quot; If you rely on blogs for what entrepreneurship ought to look like, you&#x27;re in for a nasty surprise. A better option to learn how to do a startup is a job at a startup; you&#x27;ll see the process from the inside.