Across the western world, students are entering and leaving higher education institutions with more qualifications, more debt, and fewer prospects. It doesn’t matter if it’s London, Ontario or London, England, the economy.
The difference between an employee and an entrepreneur is not the “Why didn’t I think of that?” heard around bar stools and coffee tables worldwide. It’s “Why didn’t I do.
Let’s face it, textbooks are expensive and often not sources of reading pleasure after their purposes have been fulfilled. In a world where Netflix delivers DVDs right to your door.
Joseph Schumpeter, 20th-century Austrian economist and progenitor of the notion of “creative destruction”, noted in a 1942 paper that “the function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern.
How can young entrepreneurs make others perceive them as credible and capable without traditional credentials, like certificates or degrees?
Spencer Hewett is not what one might call an “average” college freshman. At Washington University in St. Louis, Spencer is one among a growing movement of young tech entrepreneurs getting their.
For this series, I’ve Skyped gawky, venture-capitalized college kids who’re still grappling with acne. It seems as though tech entrepreneurs are getting younger. What explains this trend toward younger people entering the tech-entrepreneurial space, even while still in college? This necessarily leads to a second question: why is it that nearly all of these college-aged entrepreneurs end up dropping out of college to start their ventures?
Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, billionaire venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and early Facebook investor, does not play around when it comes to inspiring young people to build their ideas into companies. His eponymous Thiel Fellowship promises twenty entrepreneurs under twenty years old cash grants of up to $100,000 to do so.
From the time they’re young, kids are told to go to college and get a good job. Well, I’ve been doing some thinking about what it means to have a.
Last year I decided to leave Chicago for a job in Los Angeles. Today’s guest author, Alex, did the opposite. College is a stressful time for anyone, but what comes.
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