More people need to start businesses in college. Better yet - you should start multiple businesses while in college.

Here are 4 reasons why 🧵👇
1. Audience access - Your classmates act as early adopters and provide you a wealth of feedback to iterate and improve your business idea/products.
2. Access to mentorship - Colleges are made up of professors with both practical and theoretical expertise in a huge number of specialties. You can use them as mentors to help learn and guide you as you build. Think of them as a board of directors.
3. Access to free space - College campuses are loaded with empty classrooms, libraries, and study rooms. You have free space to work out your ideas. Translation: low overhead.
4. Low cost of failure - If your business(es) don’t work out - who cares? You can iterate, make major pivots or completely restart your business all while you are getting an education.

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