Starting your first business before graduation can push you way ahead and teach experiences that might take years to learn.
If your venture is successful? Good, you will be a young successful entrepreneur. If not, Amazing! The learning curve would make you stand apart!
Strong entrepreneurial and management skills with technical knowledge are what most employers are looking at. If done right, this will help you land a high-paying job.
Starting your own business will make your fundamentals strong in all business segments from operations, sales, accounts, etc
The sooner you fail, the sooner you succeed
Let's talk numbers, Majority of start-ups reach the "failure" class.
But generally, when you fail sooner with a massive learning curve, it means you are on the right track to your success story! The decision-making or management skills will always make you stand out. Great leaders are mostly made not born.
As you are already set for failures, you will incorporate having Plan B into all your life plans.
The competitive young spirit would make your body push its limit to achieve massive goals!
Technical skills meet management skills
What's the surest way of learning?
Yes, By doing!
When you are running your own company, you have to learn + do all the technical tasks.
The Below list is a bare minimum
Excel
Sales
Social Media Marketing
Developing website
Operations and Process
Hiring & Firing
Project Management
Communication
You will soon realize, you need to effectively communicate with the stakeholders to make them achieve their goals and get the tasks done even if you don't know the technical part.
Business legends are expert in getting tasks done even without knowing the technical part.
( Jack Ma was an English lecturer )
Amazing Support and Networking!
While still in college, I needed to make few illustrations for my very own venture. With few inquiries, We found so many illustrators within my university network who offered to pitch in.
The sad reality is generally we never utilize or understand the importance of networking till we realize it. When you start your business, you are forced to network and this underrated skill would take you to great heights.
You might also learn that individuals will not show interest unless they have some personal benefit. You will soon be an expert in creating a win-win situation.
Yes, these are very few which I have listed here but the advantages of starting your own business before graduating are never-ending.
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