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Startup No 179 - StartupRealities 2020 series ChildhoodEntrepreneurship is a school franchise that teaches school children and university students how to become entrepreneurs. Six different levels of the curriculum exist for kindergarten kids, primary, middle and high school students, and bachelor and masters students. The curriculum applies the Shang/上   methodology of developing a broad foundation, an aspirational specialisation and soft skills (social acumen) primarily through experiential exercises. Business Planning is taught from middle school onwards but basic concepts such as profit are developed from as early as kindergarten (nursery/daycare). CEO QUOTE "We sometimes get accused of inflating an entrepreneurial bubble by encouraging children and young people of all ages and backgrounds to start up companies. But this is far from the truth. We help children and young adults develop an enrepreneurial mindset, which would be useful for them in any vocation and industry. ...

StartupRealities No 49 AppliedInPractice is a higher education institution with a unique pedagogy centred on the use of applied (real life) homework and projects. Students are not allowed to work on any assignment that does not have a direct practical application in real life: in business, government or industry. CEO QUOTE "Live projects have been around for quite some time but universities and business schools tend to mix such projects with other hypothetical assignments. AppliedInPractice stays away from such mixing: we have abolished hypothetism altogether. Any work done by our students is on practical projects, real-life consulting for existing companies or business plans for real startups. Our professors are not allowed to give students homework; it has to be #AppliedWork. Similarly, our MBA programme is called #AppliedMBA," said company founder and CEO Al Prats. "No one likes waste, yet schools and universities waste years of the life of their students on hy...