Twenty years ago, "entrepreneur" was spelled "L-O-S-E-R." If you were a bright, talented college grad, the only road to success was by working your way up the corporate ladder.
Today that's not the case. Recently we spoke at an event in Charlotte, N.C., called the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, a series of conferences for aspiring young entrepreneurs. In the audience were hundreds of high school and college kids, feverishly taking notes. The tour, which is only five years old, will attract an estimated 20,000 students this year.
