Use Your Youth to Your Advantage Find out what 6 advantages young entrepreneurs have--but probably don't realize.

You should wait until you're older and have more businessand real-world experience before starting a business. You shouldjust focus on school for now. Nobody will take you seriously atthis age.

You'll hear all these reasons--and more--about why youshouldn't start a business from your friends, your parents,your advisors and many others who only have your best intentions atheart. But before you start believing what you hear, take a momentto think to yourself, What would have happened if somebody had toldthese arguments to and convinced:

• Bill Gates who left Harvard to start Microsoft
  
• Michael Dell who left the University of Texas to startDell
  
• Milton Hershey who opened his first candy shop when he was18
  
• Fred Smith who, while attending Yale, received a "C"on his Fedex business plan and decided to start his businessanyway
  
• Steve Jobs who left Reed University to start Apple
  
• William Hewlett and David Packard who started HP out of agarage after graduating from Stanford
  
• Or the thousands of other young people who have started abusiness and been successful