Running A Business: What Skills Do You Really Need?

High schools used to have a program that prepared youth to conceive, create and operate a business. It was called Junior Achievement. Young people developed a product, a means to reproduce it and a marketing plan to sell it. There are some schools still participating in this program, but very few in the inner city where it is desperately needed. Why have we made business appear so unreachable fo our children? We can't keep criticizing the drug dealers who teach our children marketing, packaging, distribution and accounting through the drug business, when we could have done the same thing with any other product. What skills does one really need to run a business? Today we'll talk to those who hope to incite a surge of new urbanbusiness growth as a result of teaching young entrepreneurs.