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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. ...

Startup No 170 StartupRealities 2020 series 50HoursContent is an online video education company that recruits volunteer experts and intellectuals to dedicate one hour a week (50 hours a year) to recording video talks (video blogs = vlogs) in fields of their choosing. The company is building a TED-style catalogue of content by challenging academics and professionals to leave a legacy by contributing their thoughts to educating future generations. CEO QUOTE " We don't require contributors to dedicate their talks and videos to one field only. We let their minds roam. We appreciate that producing an hour of novel ideas and thoughts in a single field every week would be quite difficult. This is why we encourage our speakers and educators to break up their hour into six 10-minute talks on different topics. Their videos thus become a magazine-type series of video blogs (vlogs). " - said 50HoursContent founder and CEO Fifi Houghton Contador. Alexander Pope (image source...