Campus Entrepreneurship

Just received a news an update that the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative at ASU has awarded another round of seed financing to student entrepreneurs on campus. According to the East Valley Tribune,
Sixteen fledgling businesses operated by Arizona State University students have received a total of $200,000 in grants from the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative to [...]

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I was fortunate to grow up in Chicago in the 80s/90s and was even more fortunate that my mom’s business partner’s husband (got that?) was an executive with the Chicago Bulls. We got to go to lots of playoffs games and see the Bull’s win 6 NBA crowns. Everyone in Chicago wanted to ‘Be Like [...]

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Nice article by Behance Network founder Scott Belsky of Harvard Business School. Its not often that we get first hand accounts from entrepreneurs like this article in the Harbus (the student weekly at Harvard Business School). There is a lot to learn from active campus entrepreneurs like Belsky. Here are some selections from his piece:
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I think this is the first time I have seen a team of Executive MBA Students win a business plan competition. According to a report on VUCast (Vanderbilt’s University Network), a team of executive MBA students from the Owen Graduate School of Management, won the Jungle Business Plan Challenge.
Check out the members of this team [...]

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The deadline to apply for the UC Davis Green Tech Entrepreneurship Academy has been extended to May 16th. The Academy is for science and technology doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty. The event will take place over a week in July in Lake Tahoe, NV.
The keynote speaker for the event is going to Armory Lovins. [...]

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Administrators and Professors are still exhibiting a wide variety of reactions to the growth in campus entrepreneurship. Andrzej Zwaniecki of America.gov wrote a nice piece on the rise of entrepreneurship on US campuses.
The piece offers some interesting insights and coverage of the growth of entrepreneurship and institutions on MITs campus over the past decade [...]

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Found this really cool article by Albert Park over at Xconomy.com in which he (an MIT student) goes over and observes the entrepreneurial culture at local rival Harvard. When I think of Harvard entrepreneurs I think of Gates and Zuckerberg.
Parks does kind of a mini-ethnography and lays out some of the driving institutions in Harvard’s [...]

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Just read an interesting story by Kimberly Cornuelle covering BU’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) competition. In this competition, there will be real time voting for finalists by audience members. While it doesn’t appear that these votes are not counted in a specific way, according to the article, the judges will take audience [...]

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I was lucky enough to work in Dayton a few months back with the Creative Class Group. They have some great people there and some great universities. Today I found out about a really cool student venture that won the University of Dayton’s Business Plan Competition.
Salud del Sol, an innovative new business from a team [...]

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In honor of the Jayhawks winning the NCAA Basketball Championship we thought we would profile the KU School of Business’ entrepreneurship offerings.
The school offers courses for non-biz undergrads, an undergrad entrepreneurship concentration, and an entrepreneurship and innovation concentration for MBAs and masters of accounting students.
The school also hosts the Mark L. Morris New Venture Development [...]

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