3A- Your Entrepreneurship Story

About two years ago I was home from UF and met my older sisters boyfriend for the first time. He was 25 years and after talking to him for a while, we began to discuss my education and his career. He went on to tell me that he worked for a Fortune 500 company for 3 years but left to pressure his entrepreneurship dream. He loves computers and technology and decided to open his how tech firm. He is still working on it today and has been doing extremely successful. This was not the most important thing I got out of the conversation though. What I truly took was what he told me next. He said that the few years he spent working in corporate America was very important to launch his entrepreneurship story. He believes that the time he spent learning about business and seeing it happen first hand was what allowed him to start his own business. He told me that it is imperative to learn by experience before beginning anything.

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  1. LancherosJanuary 21, 2019 at 7:47 PM

    I think this is awesome how even working for a fortune 500 company, he still wanted to get out and start his own business. I have friends too who tell me about how they first began in entrepreneurship and often times it's after they had been working in the corporate world as well. In my case, I've had plenty of these jobs and after seeing how much the companies make as opposed to how much the employees get paid; made me want to start my own business as well.

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