27 From Education to Entrepreneurship

LARRY MOFFETT / E-STRATEGY SRL

As a senior advisor to JEUNE aisbl, the Young Entrepreneurs Organization of the European Union, I am leading a task force to establish a mentoring program for youth interested in entrepreneurship or who have just started their business. Experienced entrepreneurs and businesspeople should be encouraged to become mentors, dedicating some of their time to advising and assisting young entrepreneurs, sharing their knowledge, experience and networks of business contacts. By adopting the practice of “paying it forward”, once those young entrepreneurs have themselves gained experience and maturity, they in turn will become mentors, thereby ensuring continuity and growth of mentoring as a core element of European business culture (as it is in Silicon Valley for example).