<p>Thanks, aurona, for starting this thread. Developing the skills needed for successful entrepreneurship is the real issue, in any event.</p>
<p>I know just a few people who’ve founded successful start-ups (5 people, 4 start-ups). Their undergraduate degrees came from Caltech, Purdue, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brandeis, and a university outside the US. But they all founded the companies in their 40’s, based on discoveries made post-post-doc. So the undergrad experience was just the start of the trail.</p>
<p>I only knew one person who founded a start-up directly after an undergraduate program. It was not on the scale of the companies mentioned indirectly, above.</p>
<p>What is the level of interest in entrepreneurship at Caltech now? And what about long-range planning?</p>