Comments on: In School And Need Startup Funds? How Is $250 Million? http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/uncategorized-blog/in-school-and-need-startup-funds-how-is-250-million/ Young Entrepreneur Forums - your online discussion forum to share and talk about Entrepreneurship. A place to learn and to help others with starting, managing and growing successful business ventures. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Nathan Waters http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/uncategorized-blog/in-school-and-need-startup-funds-how-is-250-million/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Nathan Waters Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:59:28 +0000 http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/?p=55#comment-121 Wow, I really should move to the US. Australia is absolutely pathetic when it comes to encouraging young entrepreneurship. My uni (Wollongong) is a pretty good place with lots of awards in teaching excellence etc, but they don't have any entrepreneurship course or subject. And I also found that when I approached the Sub-Dean at one stage to change my course from Commerce to Business Administration the fat guy not only advised against me changing but he kind of ridiculed my choice... especially when he said "I want you to think about this conversation in 10 years time" (as though I was making a mistake). His opinion was that B.Commerce was superior because it offered more for job-seekers with specialisation opportunities, while B.Business was more for the old people who've been working in corporations for years already. /rant Wow, I really should move to the US. Australia is absolutely pathetic when it comes to encouraging young entrepreneurship. My uni (Wollongong) is a pretty good place with lots of awards in teaching excellence etc, but they don’t have any entrepreneurship course or subject. And I also found that when I approached the Sub-Dean at one stage to change my course from Commerce to Business Administration the fat guy not only advised against me changing but he kind of ridiculed my choice… especially when he said “I want you to think about this conversation in 10 years time” (as though I was making a mistake). His opinion was that B.Commerce was superior because it offered more for job-seekers with specialisation opportunities, while B.Business was more for the old people who’ve been working in corporations for years already.

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]]> By: Kai http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/uncategorized-blog/in-school-and-need-startup-funds-how-is-250-million/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Kai Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:05:18 +0000 http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/?p=55#comment-120 In times where everyone can start his own business and new online applications are launched everyday, I still don't understand why a small company with 2 or 3 students need several millions of capital to get started. What do you need that for? If you are good at design, programming, marketing (the basic elements you need for a business in this industry anyway) what do you need all this money for?! I've launched 3 successful website with 1 friend and was doing my freelancing work on the site...!??! In times where everyone can start his own business and new online applications are launched everyday, I still don’t understand why a small company with 2 or 3 students need several millions of capital to get started. What do you need that for? If you are good at design, programming, marketing (the basic elements you need for a business in this industry anyway) what do you need all this money for?! I’ve launched 3 successful website with 1 friend and was doing my freelancing work on the site…!??!

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