Being an employee at an established company, if you want to be an entrepreneur if you can work an established company for a year just to see what being an employee is like so you know what to offer your employee so you can make an competitive offer when your business is up and running to hire the best employee.   its the best free education for starting a business as you will experience first hand the struggles and reality of progressing up the ladder yourself so that you could maybe set realistic standards for climbing the ladder in your company so you accomplish what you want while not over burdening your employees so you have a high turnover rate.