>> If you are interested in entrepreneurship and you're still a student,
I think the best thing you can do is read about other people's stories
and see if you can connect with people in your community either on campus
or local business owners and understand what their day to day challenges are,
what drives them and how they come up with their ideas for their businesses.
It's one thing to have a cool idea, it's another thing to have an idea
that can actually make you money.
And so that's really the ultimate challenge is building something that other people want
so much that they're willing to pay you for it.
The advice that I'd give any student who is interested in entrepreneurship
and thinks maybe they want to run their own business one day is to go out and work
for small business owners and entrepreneurs,
working in the fields that they're interested in.
All through college I had internships and part time jobs and I just studied a lot
of other people's work and understood, or tried to understand, what made them tick.
What they were passionate about how they started their businesses and what were the challenges
that they faced that people working
in more traditional corporate jobs didn't face every day?