Today I am heading back to my alma mater to speak to Business school students, and Engineering students. I enjoy going back. I spent the last two years of college in Champaign, and met my wife there.
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Too bad I hung out with mechanical engineering students and not computer nerds. Just after I graduated, all the gee-whiz internet whiz bang companies began to be created. Netscape, then Yelp, YouTube, PayPal and so on.
The cool thing is there is still plenty of opportunity to create something great, perhaps more.
I am following James Altucher’s advice. I hate Powerpoint and call meetings and lectures “Death by Powerpoint”. I would much rather speak for a very short time and then interact with the audience and get their questions answered. That’s a lot more important.
I’ll put the slides on Slideshare, but I asked on Twitter and Facebook what advice people would have for someone in college. Here is some of the answers I received.
•Avoid Wall Street (LaSalle St)-Better for Engineers to look somewhere else @talentedblonde @reformedbroker
•Engineering is great training for Entrepreneurs@JLM73TX
•Find a great designer (especially mobile)@howardlindzon
•Move to Chicago, there is support for you to create something great!! @troyhenikoff @rahmemanuel @brucemontgomery @jbpritzker
•Go work for a startup. Opens options for you. @aaronklein
•Test the boundaries of knowledge like Claude Shannon @warrenmurdoch
•Break stuff and make stuff @nileshtravedi
•What skills are in demand today? What matters? Use that answer to evaluate companies as you search. @coreyferengul
•Build your network. Create your own opportunities. @johnkish
•The great tech problems aren’t sexy. They transform industry and change the world. @fredhoch
What advice would you give them?
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