# Dontae Rayford (MBA '14) and Jerry Hao (MBA '13) discuss their entrepreneurship experience

1 School News June 9, 2013 ![The Times of London logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030858.jpg?itok=jHiyKosx)>

Excerpt from [The Times of London](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/markets/us/article3786821.ece) -- “'It is a lot easier to take risks and start a new business if you migrate to a hub where that sort of culture already exists,' Jerry Hao, who has just graduated from New York University’s Stern Business School, said. Mr Hao is working on a start-up project in New York. Mr Rayford, president of Stern’s Entrepreneurs Network, is well aware that opting for a job in a big company would be a safer career bet, but for him it holds no appeal. 'There is a risk going down the entrepreneurial path, but there will be opportunities that will not come to me otherwise,' he said."

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