Training Entrepreneurs at Chicago Tech Academy. If you think the next generation of start-up founders will hail from Stanford, Harvard, or some other university cranking out MBAs, you might want to expand your thinking.
There’s a 3-year-old inner-city high school in Chicago—filled mostly with poor African American youth—grooming students who know how to think, act, and speak like entrepreneurs. Some of them spend as much as three hours and several bus transfers getting to and from school. Once there, they’ve got double periods of math and English to look forward to and a longer school day than any of their Chicago public school peers. Florida Innovation Hub at UF. American Entrepreneur: Home. Interviews & Guests.