I found really fascinating this blog, which was originally post by Hamza. I found specially interesting the fact that this is a very common concern in every student life. Some people may think that it is better to start a business immediately as it takes time for a business to grow, and as recently graduates we are young and with a lot of enthusiasm, which means that maybe by the time we are 30 we will already have a profitable business. On the other hand, other people may think that it is better to gain experience before entering the competitive and risky world of business.

What Hamza proposed in his blog is that it “depends”, whether a graduate student should take the decision of starting his own business or first gaining experience from someone else. I agree with him with the fact that the idea of business and the passion of the student are key factors in order to become an entrepreneur. But in contrast, I think that it is better to gain experience first. The world of business is very challenging, it is true that in the university we learn all the theory, but applying it in the real world is a different issue, is more difficult. So we first need to learn from the experience and then we can start working on a bigger goal. I believe that we need to go step by step. If we speed up too much our objective of starting our own business, we are very likely to have a lot of problems and to loose a lot of money, as we don not have the enough experience and the knowledge required.

To see Hamza’s blog please visit the following link: https://blogs.ubc.ca/hamza/