Reduce job opportunities, college is not guaranteed

Large corporations are no longer safe haven for building a career. Through the media lens, entrepreneurship seems to be the only oasis in the desert. However, there may be few suggestions for starting a business. Some of the factors listed here are something you can think about.

You may still be a student if you are 20 years old or above, but you are under the pressure of dropping out of business or you are already working, but you feel you are not working for yourself and you feel you are losing your precious life. Experience and potential wealth opportunities.

This generation who grew up in the past few years wandered by the "lost" edge. Reduce job opportunities, college is not guaranteed. Large corporations are no longer safe haven for building a career. Through the media lens, entrepreneurship seems to be the only oasis in the desert.

However, there may be few suggestions for starting a business. Some of the factors listed here are something you can think about. Everyone's different way, decided to do it yourself.

Entrepreneurship is just a means of achieving it

People realize themselves through work with a sense of purpose, so psychologically, our understanding of success revolves around the establishment and implementation of goals to a large extent. Goals give the shape of the future, and entrepreneurship is just a means to an end. Always think about goals, but do not get intoxicated. What are you looking for? Who do you want to help? Do business make the goal easier or harder?

Venture company culture is nothing more than a new corporate culture

Compared to traditional companies, people portray start-up companies as an exciting and risk-taking choice and think startups are more free, flexible and open. Some companies did in the early days, but late-stage start-ups soon became rigid as they did before. At the systematic, methodological, cultural and social levels, entrepreneurship is almost reduced to formulas and prescriptions, but innovation itself is non-formulaic.

Startups do not subvert the old system

In the eyes of investors and investment agencies, startups are just one asset class. Entrepreneurship system has a large number of young people working hard for the boss. The system may not be concerned with the entrepreneur itself - in fact, the system, from its inception, understands and accepts the fact that most startups will eventually fail. Venture companies backed by venture capital are not disruptive in themselves, but just another system. If you feel that startups have subverted the old market, are you satisfied with the subversive results, solved the problem, or shifted the problem?

Entrepreneurial inter-personal costs continue to rise

Every entrepreneurial story can not miss one or two heroes: Overtime and overtime programming, a few weeks do not go home financing, there is no personal life at all. The story tells us that a successful return awaits us on the altar of the listing schedule. But the story did not tell us: broken marriage, friends Yang Zhan, children unattended ... Someone committed suicide, "community" there will be someone on the blog, mourn on Twitter, reflect on, and then all the same, maybe Become an example of hard work, to attract investors, intimidate competitors ...

Young programmers, I sincerely suggest that you consider the pros and cons of this coin. Want to leave traces of life, more than one road.

Author Alex Payne, CTO at Simple, worked as an engineer on Twitter. 12-year-old contact software development. Programming Scala co-author.