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Future Entrepreneur-Best Route |
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12/09/2002 |
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Come on now, surely you can't be so cynical as to suggest an aspiring entrepreneur run a business right out of undergrad?
Consulting and IB have a ton to offer -- albeit ever so indirect -- to someone who wants to run a company. |
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I thought you wanted to be an entrepeneur! If you want to climb the corporate ladder, I would pick consulting over IB, unless you have a very strong interest in the finance function. (Although you can do pretty well also by just going to a company like GE and marching through the ranks there.)
If you want to be an entrepeneur, there is no reason why you have to wait until several years after college. Actually, except for very specialized situations, you are probably better off not going into consulting or IB (which are professional services...a bit removed from where the rubber meets the road.) You are better off, starting a coffee stand or inventing a beer funnel, or creating a term paper writing service or what-have you.
The true hunter-killer entrepeneur is a bit different than IB or M/B/B. Of course these places may use the term "entrepeneurial" but it is a bit of a corruption of the concept...sorta like when they talk about "leadership".
I'm being a little bit cynical and cute here for effect...but bottom line is I mean what I say: entrepeneurs start businesses. They sell stuff to people. Being a data rodent (sorry analyst...cute cynicism creeping in again) is not the same thing as starting a business.
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