I remember as a child our school were offering £20 to student teams wanting to run a business for a week, with the team that turns over the greatest profit bein

I remember as a child our school were offering £20 to student teams wanting to run a business for a week, with the team that turns over the greatest profit being the winners. Unfortunately as we were limited in skills and ability, the best project was a car wash. I wish they run these types of projects in Colleges and Universities, where students are more skilled and motivated to work further out of the box. I would have loved to have been given £20 to buy a little server, a domain, etc, to build some small product over the course of a month with some friends. Hell, turn it into a coursework for programming, project management, etc. This kind of thing seems like a low-cost, high-value exercise for students to begin to understand the difficulties of business (most will fail - but that's okay).