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Nurturing the spirit of enterprise

More startup founders are passing on the desire for creating something new to their children from a very young age.

Published Fri, May 29, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    PERHAPS the most compelling family business narrative has long been about passing on an enterprise to the next generation. But with small business startups proliferating, and frequently growing in step with the children of company founders, it is not just the enterprise but the spirit of enterprise - the desire to create a new one - that is being passed on to the next generation.

    More and more successful entrepreneurs are grooming their children to be chief executives of startups, sometimes starting as early as middle school.

    At the Zietz family dinner table in Boca Raton, Florida, the question "How was school today?" often comes after, sometimes long after, one of the children asks their father, Sam, about his day at work as the chief executive of TouchSuite.

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