"If you pour a lot of time and energy into a startup, you can get burned seriously," Penner says. "If there is an upside, it is about a thousand times better than the downside."
Some students have already witnessed that downside.
"I've seen them fail," Alex J. Eilhauer '01 says. Regardless, he says he would still look at a startup company as a potential employer after he receives his computer science degree this spring.
"The big advantage with a startup is that it's smaller and you feel like a bigger part of the project you're working on," he says.
Over the past summer, he worked at a fledgling firm called Epesi--and says the biggest draw was working on projects every bit as important as those of senior developers.
Driving a Company's Success
"With Microsoft, if I do a bad job, it will still be there," says Eilhauer. "Maybe there is some security in that knowledge, but it's really exciting to know that I'm important to the fate of a company."
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