Forbes: As a boarding student in a Ghanaian high school, Yaw Duffour-Awuah discovered that several of his classmates who lived several hundred miles away were regularly unable to travel home for brief holidays due to lack of funds. The young man, spotting opportunity, quickly launched his company, Apex Loans. He was only 16 at the […]
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TheStar.com: Sakkijha says what she learned in the MBA she completed this past June at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management helped develop her business idea. “We learned about marketing, finance, strategy, human resources — all key things you need to know to start and grow a business,†Sakkijha says. “Also, being an entrepreneur
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At first you may not know what a scantron is. However, if you’ve ever taken a big test you’re bound to remember quickly. According to WebProNews, Michael Sokolski is the man you can thank for that testing style. Sokolski was born in Poland on September 25th, 1926. He lost his mother during a German attack
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60 Minutes: One of the wealthiest, best-educated American entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, isn’t convinced college is worth the cost. With only half of recent U.S. college graduates in full-time jobs, and student loans now at $1 trillion, Thiel has come up with his own small-scale solution: pay a couple dozen of the nation’s most promising students
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CNN Money: One of the hottest proposals for a new — and possibly better — way to pay for college got one of its most important tests one snowy day this winter in a Clarkson University classroom. Clarkson offered the contestants something pretty revolutionary in return. The students with the best business ideas would win
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If you want to raise the next generation of entrepreneurs, the best place to start is in the classroom. The Huffington Post has a few ideas on how we can teach tomorrows entrepreneurs today. Make schoolwork relevant. Students might have a dream job, but they often overlook the stepping stones to getting there. Math, science,
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his teaching position to aim for an even bigger audience. Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution
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Gazettes.com: Continuing to provide small business owners with educational resources, Goldman Sachs is again offering scholarships for the 10,000 Small Business Scholar Program at Long Beach City College. Selected business owners, who can apply to participate before the Jan. 13 deadline, may receive a scholarship from Goldman Sachs to participate in entrepreneur training programs that
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Bloomburg BusinessWeek: Male academics are much more likely than their female counterparts to start companies to exploit their inventions, studies show. That’s a problem, because if female academics aren’t building businesses based on their research, they aren’t benefiting from the rewards that high-growth, high-tech companies emerging from universities provide. Why aren’t women starting university spinoffs
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Trying to find a fun way to educate your kids about government-related topics? Mary Jo Joyce found a way to do that with her unique card decks. The three Parli-Cards games produced so far test a player’s knowledge of American history, U.S. presidents, the political process and even the federal government’s abundance of agency acronyms
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