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THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Saying that doing a student organisation is a nice thing because it's cost of failure is 0, is not a very good logic. In fact, it is the risk factor that mostly forces us to go above and beyond when everyone else is giving up. Persistence is the key, and a good way of achieving that could having limited high risk, so that you don't quit during tough times. Sooner or later, there comes a p…
Right, they are not the same thing: they do share similarities, however. I must not have made my point clearly. My own experience has to do with starting a group that has a non-trivial operating budget (O(10k), decent for a student org), customers, technology that we developed for our projects, and funded by grants for which we are required to show demonstrable progress. There are a few groups like this at my univers…
I'm still in college though so I can't tell you how beneficial these skills will be when I either startup or enter the workforce.