Students at Trinity University, just north of San Antonio, are taking part in a new type of career program designed specifically for budding entrepreneurs to allow them a safe space in which to experience failure for the first time. Certain classes within the program have been made open to all students for those not interested in a business degree but with an idea of their own.
In addition to teaching all aspects of running a start-up business, the program helps partner students with local internships and mentorships to give them relevant experience.
Each year the program holds a contest for its entrepreneurial-minded students and students with the most sound, feasible and meaningful projects are awarded grants to fund their start-up business. The Trinity area has actually seen cultural and economic change since the start of this program with more start-ups in the area bringing an influx of workers, new business, and monetary revenue that is allowing the creation of technology-related educational programs for students.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.