Why aren't there any startup programs at universities? Let's find out.

The post-secondary education system is designed to provide students with structured knowledge of a specific discipline: for example, chemistry, law, or business. Each of these is a clear and predictable field with a logical outcome: mix baking soda and vinegar and you'll get a reaction; break a store window and you'll get a fine or administrative charges.

Starting a startup isn't considered a scientific discipline for one simple reason: no one has undertaken to describe the laws within this ecosystem.
Currently, starting a startup is the work of a craftsman: you find a successful entrepreneur in your industry, observe how they do it, and imitate them, bringing them into the project as a business angel. Over time, you'll develop your own "style"—if you're smart, of course.

Some successful entrepreneurs with excess cash create accelerators (or join existing ones), form angel pools, or family foundations. Some simply deposit money into a foundation or bank. But none of them are concerned with describing the laws governing the mechanism of startup creation itself.
When someone does this—by which I mean, describes the mechanisms so that they work regardless of geography—then startup launching will become a science and be taught at universities.

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