wanna be a entrepreneur....

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Hello every one i'm manikandan . i have completed B.E(ECE). Any one please give some idea to startup a small scale in embedded.

michaelkellett · Answer

Go and work for one - to be any use to any one you to need to learn stuff. Most of the practical knowledge I have has come from working with, and listening to other people. You need years of experience (at a guess at least 5) working for other people before you can be ready to start out on your own. MK

johnbeetem · Answer

I agree with Michael: go work for a company for several years to learn what can go wrong and how best to avoid it. I did this myself back in the 90s. I was considering the possibility of doing something entrepreneurial at some point and I had the opportunity to join a medium-size company of about 100 people. The great thing was that all aspects of a small manufacturing company were present: engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, customer service, and human resources. Yet it was small enough that you could see how all these parts of the company functioned -- and malfunctioned. In a large company you only see a small part and you can't get the big picture.

In about 3 years I knew I would never want to do this myself. It was great being paid to learn this instead of losing my own money.

I don't know what the actual numbers are, but I believe I've heard that 90% of new businesses fail. Given that there are so many things that have to go right, this 10% success rate sounds about right. Now, if you have a sure-fire can't-miss crackerjack product you can increase the odds of success to maybe 20%. You read about successful companies like Facebook but the media doesn't cover the myriad companies that don't make it.

wanna be a entrepreneur....

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