one of the reason why most graduate couldn't start small is
1] no capital
2] pride
3] no good mentor
in all i think that pride is one of the reason why most of them remain stagnant.
I love the point you raised in this context, but you are wrong to have believed that pride is the major reason people are jobless. How is that even possible? For me, I think you left the major possible reasons ("no capital" and "no good mentor"). Why pride when it is what will better your life and make people envy you? And there are hundreds of works you can choose from if some look unbeffiting. Those who are doing the white-collar job, especially bankers, are bending knees for self-employed people, so it's honourable on its own.
The OP mentioned some of the reasons why most graduates couldn’t start small, and believe me, pride is among them because some of the graduates, Alfred, have had that pride since after their graduation, and they will be seeing that even when they settle for a job, it must be a high rank, which is called pride. So if you really want to start small, you have to lose that pride, as no matter the business or job, you can never start big. It will take a long time before you reach a certain stage in life, but most people, especially those graduates, think they can change the narration and start big, which will end up crushing them, or they won’t even start.