Startups–So Easy A 12-Year-Old Can Do It

In this school every seventh-grade girl becomes part of a team of four or five that create and run their own business

Out of the mouths babes. Maybe because it’s a company town and everyone in Silicon Valley has a family connection to entrepreneurship. Or maybe I just encountered the most entrepreneurial 12-year-olds ever assembled under one roof. Or maybe we’re now teaching entrepreneurial thinking in middle schools. Either way I had an astounding evening as one of the judges at the Girls’ Middle School 7th grade Entrepreneurial Night.

Steve Blank

Full Story: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/01/31/startups-so-easy-a-12-year-old-can-do-it/

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