November 19th, 2009

5 Things I’ve Learned About Starting a Business as a Recent College Graduate

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Guest Post: This weeks post comes from Jesse Gossett, the first member The Green Light Distrikt’s Cool Hat Club. Like myself, Jesse just graduated college and his passion has driven him into renewable energy. Jesse knows a thing or two about starting a company. A company he co-founder, Emergent Energy Group, just won Business Week’s ‘Top 25 Under Top Competition”.

My last post on “What I’ve Learned Since Graduation” received a lot of positive feedback so a couple weeks ago when Jesse and I were talking about what we’ve learned since graduation over a game of corn hole, I thought it would be great to see Jesse’s perspective. Jesse wrote a great post and I can’t wait for me in the future. Here it is, enjoy!

1. Now is the best time to start a business from a personal standpoint. By this I mean a few things. First, we should all have very few strings attached to us when we graduate. College loans and potentially a girlfriend. No car payments (depending on your geography), no kids, no mortgage, and no credit card debt (please tell me you got real college loans and didn’t use your credit card…). We’ve gone months at a time without any revenue, and we always get by because we have such an incredibly low operating cost and living standard. Actually, the living standard isn’t even that low. I can’t tell you how many friends buy me a beer when we’re at the bar…

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