Tuesday, July 31, 2012

From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam - Christina Farr, Venture Beat

Campus are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a beer. Given the amount of preparation and forethought it takes to start a company, you may think it ludicrous to expect entrepreneurial success in a semester or two. Yet, a handful of programs across the country have produced their fair share of fresh-faced CEOs. The lesson here? If they can do it in ten weeks on a shoestring budget, you can too. The nationwide frenzy for entrepreneurship can in large part be attributed to a select group of college classes that train and mould lazy co-eds into fully-fledged business leaders.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/21/make-or-break-college-classe/