Quitting College For a Startup

Joe Procopio
6 min readFeb 15, 2019

How do you know when the time is right to drop everything and go all-in on a startup?

Last week, I had an email exchange that came through my website from a college student who sort of lucked into a startup founded by one of his friends. He had jumped in at the beginning, which was 18 months ago, and it had enough traction to keep him motivated and busy. Let’s call him Donte.

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Joe Procopio

I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer. Building TeachingStartup.com & GROWERS. Write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More at joeprocopio.com