Management consulting + entrepreneurship = 👫❤️??

Anyone else who loves consulting as their main gig and has business development as their passion in life?

I had my own startup before joining consulting at one of the big 4, now I am using time on the bench to build my skills in digital marketing and building a new business for my friend. Anyone else with similar interests and experiences?

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Biz dev is literally the bane of my existence. I’m leaving this industry for the sole reason of avoiding that.

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Now I get you. We are talking about two kind of business development. I am referring to Biz Dev as in entrepreneurship, to grow your own company.

This is awesome. My fiancé and I both have elements of this. Do it. Refine those skills on the bench. You can pick up a lot of marketable skills - as well as awareness of where there are market opportunities- from being in consulting that you Can later translate into a business

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Great to find like-minded, I feel majority of my colleagues in my firm is there purely for consulting.

As you said consulting do provide awesome opportunity to be the first to know in what is happening in the market with all the trends and internal databases. Invaluable source of knowledge good for future empire building!

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