Startup Therapy

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the importance of teaching entrepreneurship to middle school students. There are tons of benefits when you teach young children about entrepreneurship. Kids are naturally curious and creative, and you can nurture these skills through entrepreneurship. Not only do you raise children with better critical thinking skills, but you’ll also raise problem solvers.

Show Notes

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the importance of teaching entrepreneurship to middle school students. There are tons of benefits when you teach young children about entrepreneurship. Kids are naturally curious and creative, and you can nurture these skills through entrepreneurship. Not only do you raise children with better critical thinking skills, but you’ll also raise problem solvers. 

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Resources:

What to Listen For
  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:31 Teaching entrepreneurship in middle school
  • 06:43 Think more like a child
  • 10:20 Ask why and what if
  • 14:01 Kids are taught to view failure as failure
  • 16:01 Building a pitch deck
  • 18:22 Kids running their own meetings with less barriers
  • 22:25 Ownership of their product and idea
  • 26:02 If no one wants to join your idea, do it alone

What is Startup Therapy?

The "No BS" version of how startups are really built, taught by actual startup Founders who have lived through all of it. Hosts Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan talk candidly about the intense struggles Founders face both personally and professionally as they try to turn their idea into something that will change the world.