A lot of these "startup as self-help" threads seem to draw a false distinction between entrepreneurship and full-time employment, framing the latter as some kind of moral cowardice.<p>While it may not make you feel like a Nietzschean superman, there are compelling reasons to consider finishing your degree and getting a normal job - for example, the chance to work with a large team of experts who know what they are doing, or to have access to world-class infrastructure, or to work in a field that you'd never be able to enter as an entrepreneur (steering Mars rovers, say).<p>It's fun to take a risk and pursue a dream (even if you don't appear to have any clear product idea), but there are reasons beyond risk avoidance why many people don't choose to go that route.