By Tarek Kamal, Access to Finance/Financial Inclusion Consultant
When I was in business school studying venture capital management, my entrepreneurship professor, said that before going into business, I should get some experience under my belt. I was told that making some mistakes on someone else’s dime was a good idea. True as that still is, if you are going to start a business, sooner is better than later.
The paradox is that in college we are told to study hard so that we can land a good job – the better the first job, the more successful your education has been. Colleges and universities should be teaching our youth that it is far better to start something of their own than to take scraps spruced up to look like jobs.