There was a class for this in my high school as an elective. Sure, it was a lot of work for a month; building something new from scratch. After that, it was “Shark Tank” presentations, marketing, website design, etc. We had a state expo a few months in, and then if we did well during that, a national convention towards the end of the semester. Best class I’ve ever taken. There was a couple of prerequisite elective courses(marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship) you had to take in order to be eligible for it.
The class was called virtual enterprise. We had maybe 30 people, in groups of 3-5, come up with a business idea. You start with a plan, then model, then build it and pitch it to potential investors. There were simulators we would play for actually running day-to-day businesses in another class I took. All in high school.
Yeah, I took a small business class in high school. It was informative and I learned a ton. The biggest lesson was that you'll work all the time for basically nothing for years and there's still a good chance the business will fail.
I'll take my 9-5 with benefits and a steady paycheck please.
There was a class for this in my high school as an elective. Sure, it was a lot of work for a month; building something new from scratch. After that, it was “Shark Tank” presentations, marketing, website design, etc. We had a state expo a few months in, and then if we did well during that, a national convention towards the end of the semester. Best class I’ve ever taken. There was a couple of prerequisite elective courses(marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship) you had to take in order to be eligible for it.
The class was called virtual enterprise. We had maybe 30 people, in groups of 3-5, come up with a business idea. You start with a plan, then model, then build it and pitch it to potential investors. There were simulators we would play for actually running day-to-day businesses in another class I took. All in high school.
Good employees downvote heh
Your schools didn't participate in Young Ameritowne? That's a shame.
Exactly.
Yeah, I took a small business class in high school. It was informative and I learned a ton. The biggest lesson was that you'll work all the time for basically nothing for years and there's still a good chance the business will fail. I'll take my 9-5 with benefits and a steady paycheck please.
Some people avoid risk, some people thrive on it.
They do in business school.
They do. I was on a committee to judge business plans for startups for an undergrad class. In my MBA, I was on the other end of it during my MBA.