| My recommendation is to go the start-up route for the following reasons: 1) You will be able to solve interesting problems more so than a large company which at least early on will have you doing small iterations on what they already have 2) You will be exposed to the opportunity to get business experience of a type much more valuable than what you can get out of an MBA. Get an MBA for the network, not for the academics, and not if you want to solve interesting problems in the CS space 3) you will develop the type of valuable experience that all those job applications you are looking at want. Even if a start-up fails, you will be able to point to an interesting thing that you helped develop that will help with the job search in the future Take this advice with a big grain of salt. Do what YOU want to do, like solve interesting problems that you have passion for without worrying about where it will lead you. If the problems are interesting, and the solutions are awesome, you will end up in a great place. If you go build something cool that you can show to start-ups, they will be much more interested in talking to you than if you are just a cover letter + resume combination. Where are you located? If you are in the SF Bay Area I'd be willing to talk to you about opportunities around here. |
Yeah Startup is interesting prospects. Also my poster was mentioned by a VC in UK in one of his blog posts (After I pointed him out that i had similar published ideas with working code)
However startup as alien student is really difficult, I had talked with professor who teaches entrepreneurship at my school.