{"id":3563,"date":"2017-05-10T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:30:51","slug":"do-not-be-afraid-of-your-youth-take-advantage-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/do-not-be-afraid-of-your-youth-take-advantage-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Be Afraid of Your Youth, Take Advantage of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t be afraid of your youth, rather take advantage of it. There are many advantages to being an undergrad student, and if you are strategic you can use your youth to your advantage.<\/p>\n

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  1. People don’t expect you to have the answers.\u00a0<\/strong>There is a lot of power in being willing to admit that you don’t have the answers.<\/li>\n
  2. Generally people LOVE talking with College Students.\u00a0<\/strong>I have met with many business leaders because I am a college student. Additionally, when you are doing research for a startup or in an industry that you are interested in I have found that playing the ‘I’m just a college student’ card works very well. I have utilized this especially when conducting surveys\/interviews.<\/li>\n
  3. People are interested in investing in College Students.\u00a0<\/strong>Just this semester I have made two incredible connections with business leaders that are interested in investing in the next generation. I have found two attributes to be essential to gaining the interest of those interested in investing in students: passion to learn, and a common connection.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Never be afraid of speaking to someone because of your, it should be the opposite. Be confident and take advantage of your youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Don’t be afraid of your youth, rather take advantage of it. There are many advantages to being an undergrad student, and if you are strategic you can use your youth to your advantage. People don’t expect you to have the answers.\u00a0There is a lot of power in being willing to admit that you don’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}