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I'm really concerned with the amount of time it takes to start a team. Its hard to commit to that much time as a college freshman anyway here is my experience.

I'm a college freshman now and over the end of my Senior year through the fall of my freshman year I started a business and basically put all of my free time into it. Around the winter of my freshman year I got to travel to Seattle because of the business and finally had a couple people willing to pay me. I absolutely loved what I was doing, but there were so many other exciting things at college. I basically didn't have enough hours in the day to do everything that I want. In the end the business was great, but I couldn't keep it up. I don't regret the decision at all because now I have a ton of other great things going on in my life.

My work load in college is less then in high school (my high school kind of prides itself of giving out a 4.0 about once every 10 years), but I find I have much less free time because there are so many exciting things to do on campus. So my recommendation is to wait a year at least before dedicating a large portion of your time to anything. But having said that in the end you have to do what you really want to do. Starting a business during my freshman year wasn't the smartest thing, but if I hadn't done it I would probably still be spending ever moment thinking about it.