Originally Posted by Bostonian
Originally Posted by ashley
In my neck of the woods, leadership is measured by how many starups a highschooler started and sold for millions - basically serial enterpreneurship. There is even a private progressive girl's middle school focusing on STEM and startups as part of the curriculum
Related thread from 2010:

http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/81549
Teenage Entrepreneurs (WSJ)

Yup, that is one of the local schools churning out self made multimillionaire high school grads who are already "leading" the world with their enterpreneurship and are busy maxing SATs and selling their startups for $200 millions.

Here is another story from the local high schools :
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/11/teen-whose-first-idea-sold-for-200m.html?

And high schools have "startup incubators" these days:
http://news.harker.org/students-sta...al-already-receiving-fantastic-response/