年轻创业者的黄金时代_BEC初级作文

年轻创业者的黄金时代

Since my time as a student, there has been a dramatic change in attitudes to entrepreneurship by the young and a host of initiatives to encourage it. I am an adviser to MyKindaCrowd, a platform for corporates to set business challenges to students. It taps into the creative surplus at schools and universities and gives young people a way of getting close to business.

从我的学生时代起，对年轻人创业的态度就有了巨大转变，还有各种鼓励年轻人创业的措施。我是MyKindaCrowd的顾问，它是一个让企业为学生设立商业挑战的平台。它能够发掘中学和大学里旺盛的创造性，给年轻人一条接近商业的途径。

Bizworld, founded by renowned venture capitalist Tim Draper in 1997, provides a fun, project-based way for schoolchildren to learn business and entrepreneurship basics and has reached more than 500,000 children.

著名风险投资家蒂姆•德雷珀(Tim Draper) 1997年创建的Bizworld，为学龄儿童提供了一种有趣的、基于项目的方式去学习商业和创业基础知识，超过50万名儿童已经接受了这样的培训。

I have been struck by the impact it has on the most academically troubled kids. For many of them it generated a new enthusiasm about school and turned around their academic performance. The transformative power of entrepreneurial ambition is evident in Bejay Mulenga, who credits his tuck shop business success with reigniting his interest in school and getting his grades up. His Supa Tuck teaches GCSE-age students how to run a tuck — or food — shop. This summer, he is launching an ambitious scheme in which 500 teenagers will invest £30,000 into a pop-up tuck shop, with the aim of turning it into half a million.