To young programmers who want to start a business

For young entrepreneurs Program Employee

Reading: job opportunities are reduced, and university students are not guaranteed. Large companies are no longer building a safe harbor for their careers. With media footage, entrepreneurship seems to be the only oasis in the desert. However, few people may suggest you start a business. You can consider all the factors listed here.

If you are 20 years old, you may still be a student, but you are under pressure from the idea of dropping out of school to start a business. Or you have already worked, however, I always feel that I am not suitable for working, and I feel that I am losing the opportunity to gain valuable experience and potential wealth.

The generation that has grown up in the past few years is on the verge of being lost. Job opportunities are reduced, and university study is not guaranteed. Large companies are no longer building a safe harbor for their careers. With media footage, entrepreneurship seems to be the only oasis in the desert.

However, few people may suggest you start a business. You can consider all the factors listed here. Each person has a different path and decides to do it by himself.

Entrepreneurship is just a means to achieve the goal

People realize themselves through purposeful work. Therefore, our Psychological Understanding of success is largely centered on the establishment and implementation of goals. The goal represents the future, and entrepreneurship is just a means to achieve the goal. Always think about the goal, but do not get intoxicated with the means. What do you care about? Who do you want to help? Start-ups make it easier or more difficult to achieve the goal?

Entrepreneurial company culture is nothing more than a new enterprise culture

Compared with traditional companies, people portray entrepreneurial companies as exciting and risky choices, and feel that they are more flexible, flexible, and open. Some companies did this in the early days, but later startups will soon become rigid with their previous companies. In terms of systems, methods, culture, and society, entrepreneurship is almost simplified into formulas and prescriptions. However, innovation itself has no formulas.

Start-ups did not subvert the old system

In the eyes of investors and investors, a startup company is just an asset type. There are a large number of young people working hard for their bosses in the entrepreneurial system. But this system may not be concerned with entrepreneurs themselves-in fact, from the very beginning of its formation, this system understands and accepts the fact that most startups will eventually fail. Venture capital-backed start-ups are not disruptive. They are just another system. If you think a startup company is revolutionizing the old market structure, are you satisfied with the results after the disruption? Is the problem solved or transferred?

Increasing interpersonal costs for entrepreneurship

One or two heroes are missing in every entrepreneurial story: programming overtime overnight, returning home for a few weeks to raise funds, and having no individual life. The story tells us that success returns are on the altar of the listing schedule. However, what we didn't tell us about this was the breakdown of the marriage, the part of a friend, and the absence of children ...... Someone committed suicide,"Community"There will be people mourning and reflecting on their blogs and Twitter, and they will continue to work as usual. Maybe they will become an example of hard work to attract investors and intimidate competitors ......

Young programmers, I sincerely suggest you consider both sides of this coin. There are more than one way to leave traces of life.

Author Alex Payne, CTO of simple company, once an engineer at Twitter. 12 years old contact with software development. Co-author of programming Scala.

original article link: http://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html