I really hate to say this. But open source contributions don’t matter either. It’s only what you do for a company. No one has time to look at an open source repository. Every open job these days have thousands of applications. They aren’t going to look at your GitHub repo.

I see now. You mean real business stuff. At that point I may as well do a startup.

So taking the wrong lessons from what I’m saying :).

It’s even harder doing a startup straight out of college with no business skills, no network, and no real world experience.

I guess I'm just confused now. I can't do technical since that's too commodified, but I can't do business since I'm a youngster with no real world experience.

My bad. I’m carrying on two threads within the same post. This was my suggestion to another question

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968258