Yesterday, at SEBRAE's Entrepreneur Expo, I had the chance to talk about Startup AL, our local startup community, it was great to see a lot of people wanting to get involved to work, help and collaborate with us and also how our community has become a reference and is encouraging young (and not-so-young) entrepreneurs to act.
I was also invited to moderate a talk about entrepreneurial education. Joining me on the talk was Gustavo Costa, founder of Xoboi and student of business administration at CESMAC, Bruno Bessa, entrepreneur and a teacher at the Federal University of Alagoas, Francisco Abud, coordinator of the IT program from Universidade Estácio and Cristina Suruagy, principal of Universidade Estácio de Sá
We talked about what is like to be an entrepreneur at the university, how difficult it is to develop entrepreneurship with the traditional educational methods and about some programs that are being tested and developed to bring entrepreneurship closer to the university. Gustavo, who I invited halfway through the talk brought an interesting perspective from the student side to the discussion about how education could be more practical and how entrepreneurship should be developed at the university. I was extremely happy that both educators and students mentioned Startup Weekend as one of the best examples of an entrepreneurial education program.