let me make myself clear that I am ONLY referring to the CS majors who claim to be entrepreneurial at heart.
I know very few CS majors who can decide how entrepreneurial when they are that young. Everyone is pretty much entrepreneurial when you are in college - you want to create the next facebook or send the next rocket to space, but actually having the guts to do that is another story.
When graph search came out, he said he had worked on the Graph Search Project but the specific part that he had worked on was not implemented at all. How disappointing, huh?
Not disappointing at all. He did build something and in the process he most likely learned a myriad of intangible skills (project management, working with people, social skills, communication skills, etc) Those lessons are invaluable to the real business world.
Many of the skills required in today's jobs (not just the bubble of SV we all sit in here at HN) are learned at big companies, doing nothing but working with other people. Communication skills are often misunderstood and often seen as secondary to technical skills. As many experienced will attest to, many of today's software errors aren't a result of poor technical ability but rather poor communication. No offense to the OP, but his writing skills are clearly not great. In the land of startups, I'd be scared as an investor/customer (any stakeholder for that matter) trying to properly communicate with him.
EDIT: Also forgot to add this: "Professional networks were important to the success of their current businesses for 73 percent of the entrepreneurs. In comparison, 62 percent felt the same way about personal networks."[1] That's something you will definitely get in a big company.
[1]http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/the-anatomy-of-a...
I know very few CS majors who can decide how entrepreneurial when they are that young. Everyone is pretty much entrepreneurial when you are in college - you want to create the next facebook or send the next rocket to space, but actually having the guts to do that is another story.
When graph search came out, he said he had worked on the Graph Search Project but the specific part that he had worked on was not implemented at all. How disappointing, huh?
Not disappointing at all. He did build something and in the process he most likely learned a myriad of intangible skills (project management, working with people, social skills, communication skills, etc) Those lessons are invaluable to the real business world.
Many of the skills required in today's jobs (not just the bubble of SV we all sit in here at HN) are learned at big companies, doing nothing but working with other people. Communication skills are often misunderstood and often seen as secondary to technical skills. As many experienced will attest to, many of today's software errors aren't a result of poor technical ability but rather poor communication. No offense to the OP, but his writing skills are clearly not great. In the land of startups, I'd be scared as an investor/customer (any stakeholder for that matter) trying to properly communicate with him.
EDIT: Also forgot to add this: "Professional networks were important to the success of their current businesses for 73 percent of the entrepreneurs. In comparison, 62 percent felt the same way about personal networks."[1] That's something you will definitely get in a big company. [1]http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/the-anatomy-of-a...