-: My name is Mike Kaltschnee.
I'm a graduate of Western.
I have a bachelor of arts and computer science from Western,
which is kind of an unusual degree.
I'm basically a geek that can write,
and I run the Danbury Innovation center.
It's a hacker space and coworking space located
in Main Street, Danbury.
It's a nonprofit corporation.
It's more of a co-op.
Well, definitely do a startup when you first graduate
because that's the time you have the, you know,
you can take the most risks with your lives.
I have mortgages now, and I have kids
and college bills to pay.
So take the risk while you can.
But I would say do what I did.
I heard a software company was moving in upstairs
to where I was working at retail,
and I would just show up and start stuffing disks
and hanging out, and finally, they felt guilty and hired me.
But I would stalk the companies you're interested in.