[matwood]

I agree with you. Students have more disposable time than any other segment of the population except the unemployed/out of school. If a person in school cannot build and sell something while still in school, then dropping out isn't likely to help.

Getting an MVP build and finding those first critical customers (if they even exist) should be perfectly feasible while still going to class.

[nostrademons]

Time is rarely the limiting resource for a startup - attention is. Students (at least ones who want to somewhat keep up with their schoolwork) do not have more disposable attention than most working people. As a student, you need to balance your attention between 4-5 different courses, all of which have their own deadlines and assignments and new concepts to learn, and you'll probably be distracted by parties and girls and campus events and a social life. As an entry-level worker, you will probably be given a well-defined task to do and can focus on it, and once you go home, you don't need to worry about it.

I found it much easier to launch side projects once I got out of school, because I could leave my work at work and didn't really care about it anyway. I don't think I reached a level of distractedness equal to my college career until I made senior engineer (and hence have everyone asking me for advice) and started dating, 5 years later.

[usaar333]

I'm really not sure if that is true for those in technical majors like comp sci. While I've never had a full time job working for someone else, I definitely had more free time during summer internships (40 hour workweek) than while in school. YMMV.