Posted by Susan Cartier Liebel, Esq. in Current Affairs, How Law
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Not exact matches
«Almost every
failed entrepreneur... overestimates their ability to generate revenue, or underestimates what it'll take» to start making money, says Stewart Thornhill, executive director at the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey
School of Business.
Similarly, a
failed entrepreneur might explore how skills learned in starting a business could be applied in a corporate setting, take standardized exams to be considered for law
school or engage in other low risk exploration activities.
The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had
failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal
school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education
entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.
Teach for America and the «education
entrepreneurs» who developed the «no excuses» charter
school movement (often TFA alums) believe that America's
schools are
failing and that they have a mission to save our country's future.