{"id":80055,"date":"2022-04-11T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80055"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:14:00","slug":"how-a-statewide-entrepreneurship-contest-launched-3-indianapolis-high-schoolers-into-a-million-dollar-business-newcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/11\/how-a-statewide-entrepreneurship-contest-launched-3-indianapolis-high-schoolers-into-a-million-dollar-business-newcomb\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Statewide Entrepreneurship Contest Launched 3 Indianapolis High Schoolers into a Million-Dollar Business [Newcomb]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/how-a-statewide-contest-launched-3-indianapolis-high-schoolers-into-a-million-dollar-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How a Statewide Entrepreneurship Contest Launched 3 Indianapolis High Schoolers into a Million-Dollar Business<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from the74million.org by Tim Newcomb<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If not for a statewide pitch competition for entrepreneurial students, three Indianapolis high schoolers likely wouldn\u2019t have started their business. And they certainly wouldn\u2019t have seen that company, Find Ideal Applicants, earn $20,000 in early-stage investment that valued the company at $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>State leaders \u201cwanted to see if they could intersect students with entrepreneurship and innovation,\u201d he says. Students learn how to see a problem as an opportunity and come up with a plan. Wettrick says the faster students understand the benefits of learning from their mistakes, the more success they will have sooner in their lives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a Statewide Entrepreneurship Contest Launched 3 Indianapolis High Schoolers into a Million-Dollar Business &#8212; from the74million.org by Tim Newcomb Excerpt: If not for a statewide pitch competition for entrepreneurial students, three Indianapolis high schoolers likely wouldn\u2019t have started their business. And they certainly wouldn\u2019t have seen that company, Find Ideal Applicants, earn $20,000 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,174,127,343,347,141,237,211,419,180,46,66,321,11,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career-development","category-collaboration","category-education","category-education-reform","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-entrepreneurship","category-funding-grants","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-k-12-related","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-vision-possibilities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80057,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80055\/revisions\/80057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}