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Originally Posted by Milo Riano  There is nothing wrong in being an employee as long as you are in the right company where you get paid well, learn things you cannot get from anywhere and at the same time build you an enormous network which are all beneficial if in the future you decide to put up a business. |
Well, it depends on what your values are. I've said this before and I'll say it again -- for me, freedom is more important than all the money in the world. Also, unless you're a CEO/VP/executive you're not going to learn much about running a business or get paid a lot of money. And as an executive you're most likely going to be working at a large corporation, since at a small company it's more likely that the founders would take the executive positions. Knowing how a large corporation runs doesn't help you learn how to run a small business -- they're very different things. All this assumes you can even get an executive position, which I imagine is very hard in itself.
Another thing you need to consider is that many companies make you sign a non-compete agreement where you give up your right to start a competing business for one or more years after you leave the company. I had a programming job once, and had to sign one. It makes even more sense to force people in high positions to sign something like that. That means you can't use what you've learned about that particular industry to start your own business.