I’m 21 and want to learn directly from entrepreneurs, what would be the best way to discover and learn about entrepreneurship and starting your own company. I was going to look for conventions near me or networking events. If you could share other ways or youtube channels/content or books to read. Thank you!

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Look on YCombinator. Best accelerator program and has a ton of free resource

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Garry tan is the goat, I can’t wait to see what he does with YC

Find a mentor. There are a few mentor sites out there with mentors that are doing it for free. Also a number of Slack/FB communities where you can network as well. Best way to get a foot in the door is to have a small project you’re working on and ask them for advice on that.

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Just send it and learn from experience

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What do you want to know?

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Listen to the 20VC podcast.

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That’s a good podcast but more for raising money not launching a biz. I also like startup therapy,,

Check these books out:

1. The e-myth revisited
2. The entrepreneur rollers coaster

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Start with the book Getting to Plan B. Best one out there

The best way to start your own company is to start your own company. What do you want to do?

Depending on Company type, SBA also has a lot of resources to help get started

Join a startup

Literally just start doing stuff expecting to fail and learning from that to do it better the next time. Just go

Contribute or volunteer part time for an early stage startup and help them bringing idea to an MVP stage! That would be a great experience as you will get to know/see product, tech, marketing, sales and investor outreach activities!

Any tips on how/where to find these start ups?

DM me if you are interested to volunteer and learn. We are working on a product!

Podcasts bro. 'How I Built This' and the Shopify podcast are good ones for inspiration.
Also read 4 Hour Work Week, it'll change the way you think about entrepreneurship.

Join a seed or series A startup run by a successful former founder. No amount of reading or podcasts will help you as much as actually doing it.

You can start your own of course, but you might actually learn more + lower risk by joining one run by someone with a track record of success

Go and work in retail during weekends!!! You will learn more than pursuing MBA at Ivy League. I have done both.

You can check out Alex and Leila Hormozi's content on YouTube. They share some interesting perspectives on entrepreneurship.

Checkout Argona Partners (argonapartners.com). My sister interned for them a few years ago and said they were great mentors.

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