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>> If you are interested in
entrepreneurship and you're still a student,

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I think the best thing you can do
is read about other people's stories

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and see if you can connect with people
in your community either on campus

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or local business owners and understand
what their day to day challenges are,

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what drives them and how they come up
with their ideas for their businesses.

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It's one thing to have a cool idea,
it's another thing to have an idea

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that can actually make you money.

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And so that's really the ultimate challenge
is building something that other people want

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so much that they're willing to pay you for it.

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The advice that I'd give any student
who is interested in entrepreneurship

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and thinks maybe they want to run their
own business one day is to go out and work

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for small business owners and entrepreneurs,

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working in the fields that
they're interested in.

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All through college I had internships and
part time jobs and I just studied a lot

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of other people's work and understood, or
tried to understand, what made them tick.

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What they were passionate about how they started
their businesses and what were the challenges

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that they faced that people working

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in more traditional corporate
jobs didn't face every day?