There’s been a lot of talk recent on TWiST and in the Tech scene about whether or not Entrepreneurs can be made (which I believe stemmed from Fred Wilson’s initial post on the matter). I say, sure, why not? I look at entrepreneurship as a collection of skills that allow people to build businesses from nothing. Why can’t it be taught, just like any other business skill?
I have to say one thing though, an entrepreneur should be willing to be able to live with the ups and downs that come from being an Entrepreneur. God knows that it’s not fun failing all the time. I think that tenacity can be taught as well, as long as they know that failure is just part of the ride.
On the same note, the tech crunch article talks about the Kaufmann foundation research into it, and they believe that entrepreneurship can be taught and actually have programs designed to teach starting entrepreneurs the skills necessary to succeed. The program is called FastTrac and it’s free, but only provided to those who are accepted into the program. Application here.
