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Forge the Future: Immersive Roleplaying for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Paul G. Silva

Have you ever tried explaining to friends or family what it’s really like to build a startup? Built on the award-winning Forged in the Dark framework, this experiential learning tool places participants in the roles of startup founders racing to bring their vision to life before time and resources run out.

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What Should We Make of Peter Thiel’s “20 Under 20? Education Program?

Both Sides of the Table

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. Suddenly everybody wants to be an incubator. The value of a college education. Education is self discovery. Having fun.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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Should every startup get funded?

This is going to be BIG.

That’s the thing—startups in the initial stages need advice, feedback, and guidence a lot more than they need money upfront. The problem is that misguided startups with too much money to spend also take up scarce resources—like engineering talent, media attention, designers, etc.—making This is a good thing.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days. Student clubs can be very powerful connections into the startup and innovation world. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. Support the student club ecosystem.