What advice would you give college students about starting a business? 
jacquesm: I'm going to write this as a high-school drop-out that did very well:Finish that college and forget about that startup, assuming you're in a halfway decent college and a somewhat useful discipline.I know you've been asked to speak about your experience, but keep in mind you've been asked because of your success, and the road behind you is littered by the corpses of those that didn't make it.Starting a business, while in college, or out of it, is in large part luck if it is successful. By talking to people about what you've achieved you may give them the impression that this is easier than it looks, so stress the amount of luck that went in to it, to make sure they can weigh the odds accordingly.Starting early or late isn't really much of a decision, the longer you wait the more knowledge you have, so the bigger the chance that you will succeed the first time, but by then the people that started earlier will have failed once already and will have learned from that as well. It works out about even.Being a 'domain expert' is limiting your business to something very small right away, better to be general and to know how to procure the services of domain experts!You know you have a 'right idea' when it starts moving under its own power, instead of you having to push it.Finding investors is for a very lucky few, better concentrate on realistic scenarios for bootstrapping.Possible additions to your list:- the value of networking- keep your fixed costs DOWN! (even today I still do this)- make a nest egg as soon as you can afford it- live healthy, running a startup is like top sport