[hansy]

If you are interested in a startup, see if you can do small tasks for them while you are in school. Realistically, you probably are slightly inexperienced compared to CS grads, but perhaps you can do the odd jobs like minor testing or bug checking.

A lot of college students get jobs anyway while in school, so there's no reason to think you couldn't do some part time work for the startup.

The big advantage of this is you get some real-life experience and, come graduation time, you might have a job waiting or will get kick-ass referrals.