Keyword: «startup»

the article considers a stochastic model of the profitability of investments in startups while diversifying through investments in several projects. The model allows you to optimally choose the number of projects for investment according to the criterion of obtaining a given profit with the required probability.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that there is no standard format and structure for teaching entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation today. Entrepreneurship currently has immeasurable importance to achieve economic growth and economic development of the country. The State is making efforts to facilitate startups, while university entrepreneurial education is still left behind. Business and management education focuses only on teaching students how to become good employees paying attention to the fact that it is their only career option. Most students do not acquire many of the skills that entrepreneurs need, including thinking outside the box, knowing how to acquire and use resources, ability to create organizations, and effective teamwork. Teachers do not always realize the importance of entrepreneurial learning model transformation. It is entrepreneurship training at the university that should contribute to the creation of new jobs, not only to the provision of prospective employees on the labor market. Therefore, studying at the university should include business practices that can help students feel and overcome the difficulties that will arise in new company development. The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of the university as a determinant of the act of entrepreneurship. The problem of the study is to answer the question: what factors should be taken into account in education in order to consider university education as a chance to set up a business? The theoretical basis of the study was the analysis of Russian and foreign scientific literature on entrepreneurship development in higher educational institutions. The theoretical significance of the research is due to the analysis of approaches to popularize the concept of entrepreneurship and its implementation among students in order to make graduates potential entrepreneurs. The authors identified and described indicators that stimulate entrepreneurship in general. The practical significance of the study is due to the description of the factors that should be taken into account while training in order to make university education a platform for students’ startups.