Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Don't Have To Be College Dropouts: A Model for Nurturing College Students to Become Successful Internet Entrepreneurs

摘要

Some of today's most successful Internet entrepreneurs didn't graduate from college. Many young people today followed the same path to pursue their dreams however ended up failing, not a surprise because 80% of the startups fail in first 5 years. As technology innovation and market competition on Internet continue to accelerate, college students need guidance and support more urgently now than ever before. Meanwhile most entrepreneurshipprograms offered in colleges and universities provide only general strategy-innovation-finance guidance for broad entrepreneurship while lack concentration on online startups or connection to Internet technology. Based on the best practices in academia and industry, the authors proposed a technology-business-environment model that could help guide universities in nurturing, building, and shaping their students' dreams and goals towards creating a successful Internet startup business. Finally, the authors evaluated our model using an online survey to students at a U.S. public university.