Putting Students Where They’re Needed Most – Venture for America

According to The New York Times, big corporations step in to recruit some of the top businesses students when they graduate. How can we expect small business to keep up?

A serial entrepreneur, Andrew Yang, thinks he has the answer. Venture for America http://ventureforamerica.org/ , a nonprofit he founded this summer, recruits college seniors to spend two years after graduation at start-ups in struggling cities. For the inaugural class of 2012, he expects to place about 50 fellows at renewable energy, biotech and Internet ventures in Detroit, New Orleans and Providence, R.I.

by Angela Shupe

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