The Future Entrepreneur Challenge provides mentorship and professional development for middle and high school students
May 12, 2020 (San Francisco, CA)
It has been an exciting couple of months for the Future Entrepreneur Challenge as we officially launched our online program, an entrepreneurship training program for students from middle school to college. The program is developed by Harmony Plus, a leading international learning company based in Silicon Valley.
The Future Entrepreneur Challenge, or FEC, is an 8-module program structured as a startup competition for students interested in entrepreneurship. It includes 16 hours of instruction and mentorship from experienced tech professionals who help students develop real products and pitch to a panel of Silicon Valley investors. Students foster lasting connections with prominent executives and can also win internships at high-growth startups.
Through this program, students develop a framework for understanding product development, idea evaluation, and customer discovery by validating their testable prototypes directly with their target audience. The program aims to provide essential entrepreneurial skills and tangible frameworks such as problem and solution evaluation, customer discovery, customer acquisition, business model design, MVP development, and value proposition design.
“When I started my career as an entrepreneur I was fortunate enough to be trained by several mentors that guided me along the path of becoming an entrepreneur and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to share my experience and lessons learned with the future generations of entrepreneurs. I believe that during the first experience as an entrepreneur getting the right mentorship and training from someone who has experience in the field is the key to success and will help the students to jumpstart their entrepreneurial career and stand out in their college applications.” — Massimiliano Genta, FEC Instructor
Harmony Plus’s network of mentors and judges includes successful entrepreneurs, academic leaders, technology professionals, and innovative investors. The next FEC will be from May 26 to June 18. Registration is currently open worldwide.
For more information, visit https://harmonyplus.com/future-entrepreneur-challenge/
About the Instructors
Massimiliano Genta
Massimiliano Genta is a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at NEC X as the CEO of Metabob, the AI-powered visualization, and coding tool, as well as Clyste, a community-owned and AI-driven social media, and Snstk, a sensor company winning a government-funded startup competition in Korea. Through his work with the Harmony Plus Future Entrepreneur Challenge, he provides instruction and mentorship to young professionals who then pitch to investors and startups for internships and fundraising.
Jesse Clain
Jesse is an entrepreneur and educator based in Silicon Valley. He started his first company, Wirejump, which has since been sold, in 2015. Two years later, he moved to East Africa, where he taught English, math, psychology, and entrepreneurship and helped build a startup incubator at Abaarso, an elite boarding school in Somaliland. Jesse uses his experience as an entrepreneur and a classroom teacher to ensure that every FEC student leaves the class knowing how to use their abilities to make a massive impact in their communities.
