Venture Forward with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Entrepreneurship is more than starting a business, it’s a way of thinking and acting. It’s about identifying opportunities, finding ways to solve problems, and taking
July 19, 2022
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Learning to Embrace Failure with the VentureLab Workbook
Entrepreneurs see mistakes as ways to learn new things. They know that it’s okay to not succeed every time you try something. We call this embracing failure.
July 24, 2020
Making Failure a Tool for Discovery
How do you speak to your children and students about failure? Do you create an environment and engage in a dialogue with your children where
December 2, 2019
Talking About Failure
Dinner conversations at the Blakely household had an unusual twist. Each night at the table, Sara Blakely’s father would ask her, “What have you failed
November 21, 2017
Developing Skills For The Future
Our world needs skilled, innovative workers. Not just any skills—but increasingly specialized as well as wide-ranging ones. According to a World Economic Forum Report, “New
August 22, 2017
The VentureLab Difference: ESTEAM
Discover how VentureLab’s unique ESTEAM framework merges entrepreneurship with STEM and the arts to foster innovation and critical thinking among youth. Our curriculum not only teaches important STEM skills but also applies them in creative, real-world contexts, empowering students to become motivated, team-oriented, and problem-solving innovators. Explore our approach to making STEM concepts relatable and engaging, particularly for girls and younger students, through hands-on projects and entrepreneurial education.
August 18, 2017
Engage Girls in STEM: Teach Them to Be Entrepreneurs
Teaching girls to think like entrepreneurs can be the key to unlocking their potential in STEM fields. At VentureLab, we encourage girls to innovate, problem-solve and take calculated risks, and we’ve seen a profound change in their enthusiasm and confidence as a result. By exposing girls to entrepreneurial concepts at a young age, they become more aware of opportunities around them and learn to think creatively. We’ve even seen 5-year-old students become entrepreneurs by identifying a problem, conducting market research, and ultimately creating a successful product. If we want more women innovators, we need to teach girls to observe and anticipate needs, innovate, and take risks.
August 15, 2017
Engage Girls in STEM: Let Them Learn From Failure
I’ve discovered three keys to building our pipeline of women innovators and changemakers. In my last post, I explored the first key: let girls break
August 11, 2017
Lighting the Spark: Retraining Young Girls to Excel
Redefining failure and encouraging a growth mindset is crucial in shaping our daughters’ path to success. By teaching girls that their brains can change, grow, and embrace challenges, we cultivate their confidence, persistence, and resilience. VentureLab aims to empower girls through entrepreneurial education, sparking their potential and equipping them to live impactful lives.
June 9, 2017
Teaching a Confidence Mindset So Girls Learn From Failure
Our motivation to teach girls an entrepreneurial mindset and can-do skills is not only about gender equity, but our nation’s future. Our global leadership depends to a great extent on the ability of our entrepreneurs to create companies and jobs out of innovations in technology. That is the genius of our economy, but also its vulnerability. We cannot become complacent. We need new, young, courageous, growth-minded entrepreneurs—men and women—to start and build the businesses of the future.
June 6, 2017