3 reasons not to join a startup

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My talk to today's student conference at my old University, Southampton ECS, In this talk, I also covered the reasons why startups are a lifelong passion, and how students should approach starting their own business.

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3 ReasonsNot To Join A Startup

Mike Austin CEO

• Learn about Business• You need experience of many roles

• Control• Ownership• Make Things

• Broaden• Deepen• Strengthen

• Join the right startup• Have the right attitude

Pick a sector

Join a startup as an intern-

Is it for you?

JOIN MILKROUND, PLACEMENT ORGS?

• Startups are hard, infuriating and sometimes unrewarding

• Startups are also engrossing, satisfying, fulfilling

• If you want to start your own business, join somebody else’s startup first

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