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  • 16 years old and thinking about creating a startup

    This is my first post on reddit as well as on r/Startups. So in advance I apologize for any mistakes. I'm 16 years old and I'm already thinking about creating my startup. As I am part of this digital information age, the internet in general has filled me with a lot of experience but at the same time a lot of fears about this goal I have in life. It is almost impossible to live thinking that many pseudo mentors tell you: "You need to be friends with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin for your startup to grow" and at the same time the other part of those inspirational stories telling you about founders that were born in the poorest neighborhoods of Europe and now have companies valued in billions of dollars. That's why I decided to connect through this platform because I know that people will be more than honest with me even if it's the worst thing seen. Back to my case, I will tell you a little bit about my plan of approximately 20/25 years looking into the future. Mainly, it is to finish high school, I have two years left and I am taking advantage of the vacations to learn technical things about the field in which I want to develop my startup (AI, programming, etc) as well as business. After that, I will start my degree in Systems Engineering. Maybe a part of me says not to do it but another part of me says yes, including my brothers (much older than me) saying that I will have much more possibilities both professional and knowledge if I do the university. The career takes 5 years exactly so it would be 7 (plus the two years of high school) from here. In university meanwhile, I will add to the knowledge of the career more knowledge about business and even if I can, start working as a freelancer and save money (and obviously, experience) for the future. And networking with other entrepreneurs, programmers, etc. From there, I have 15 years that are divided by stages, such as starting to work in companies to gain even more knowledge of the areas, formalizing what is the concrete product or an MVP of my startup, having raised enough money maybe to lay the foundations and then concluding funding through investors, incubators, etc. I continue to detail what I really want to solve in the world, there are many things that have not yet been fully solved. The tools of the present will become obsolete then when I finally get to give a solution. I feel like I'm late for all. So I want to take advantage of it, but at the same time it's something contrary to me. I have a slightly more detailed plan than what I'm talking about, but it's an idea that the future will shape as time goes by. Not that I have to accomplish it in 22 years, I would love to, but let's be realistic; the analogy I have about startups is like a defenseless animal in the middle of the forest, will its mother be strong enough to keep it alive without being eaten by prey (competition, lack of liquidity, policies, etc.) in less than a week after being born? There are many things to see. I would like to read them, I would thank you in advance for your messages and I am sorry if something is not clear.
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