3 reasons not to join a startup
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My talk to today's student conference at my old University, Southampton ECS, In this talk, I also covered the reasons why startups are a lifelong passion, and how students should approach starting their own business.TRANSCRIPT
3 ReasonsNot To Join A Startup
Mike Austin CEO
• Learn about Business• You need experience of many roles
• Control• Ownership• Make Things
• Broaden• Deepen• Strengthen
• Join the right startup• Have the right attitude
Pick a sector
Join a startup as an intern-
Is it for you?
JOIN MILKROUND, PLACEMENT ORGS?
• Startups are hard, infuriating and sometimes unrewarding
• Startups are also engrossing, satisfying, fulfilling
• If you want to start your own business, join somebody else’s startup first
