From a student of startup business to a startup employee or entrepreneur

Abstract

This paper aims at understanding of the incidents, relationships and processes that has lead students engaged in study programs focusing on start-up/entrepreneurship activity in technology business to become employees and entrepreneurs in the aforementioned industry. Via qualitative approach based on career history and projections (career narratives) written by the respondents this study aims at shedding light on the process of grasping the entrepreneurial or employment opportunity and thus give ideas of pedagogical and professional arrangements that may foster the development of practices leading to employment and entrepreneurship in the business type in scope.