Are They Still Teaching Air Guitar? Thinking About University Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI (opens in new tab)

Sixteen years ago, I wrote that, “Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world.” I meant that you can mimic all the movements of a startup without any of the real risk-taking or building. My criticism then was that we were teaching students to pitch without teaching them to build. Fifteen years later, that gap matters even more. In a world where AI can help anyone ship a working product in a weekend, and where entry-level jobs are disappearing, the ability ...