Campus Entrepreneurship

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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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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When it comes to bplan comps, we almost always hear about the winners. This is good old selection bias. Tiffany Petrosino over at the Yale Daily News has a great piece on some Yale entrepreneurs who lost in the Yale Entrepreneurial Society Competition.
After losing in the competition,
Robert Henehan ’10 and Vincent McPhillip ’10 did not [...]

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Early in ‘08 we blogged about Belmont University being named the ‘model’ undergrad entrepreneurship program in the US. Donna Fenn has written about Belmont over at Inc.com. From her piece,
The school has three “hatcheries” or incubators, where 65 students operate businesses with access to mentors and business center services. Belmont has also invested several hundred [...]

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From the press release;
Stern Board of Overseer Ira Leon Rennert, Chairman and CEO of the private investment firm the Renco Group and longstanding supporter of entrepreneurship at the School, committed $3.5 million. His gift will enhance the seed funding currently awarded to traditional track winners in Stern’s nationally recognized Business Plan Competition, as well as [...]

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After the positive response to the first Acton MBA post, I went by YouTube.com and found a bunch of videos on the Acton MBA. Below is the basic intro video. Here is a link to all their videos.
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I had read about the new Acton MBA a few months back, but couldn’t remember where. Tonight I found a great article about this unique MBA/entrepreneurship program — founded by some UT Austin Profs/Entrepreneurs.
I am so happy to see this because one of my biggest complaints about academia is the lack of entrepreneurship that occurs [...]

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“Work before school, work before girls, work before play, and church before work,” said Nate Alder, CEO of Klymit (view their sites here and here), about the rules he lives by as a student at BYU but more importantly to him as CEO.
From an article at BYU Net by Ashley Gessel on the student entrepreneurs [...]

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Belmont University in Tennessee, where Jeff Cornwall teaches and blogs out of, has just been named ‘model’ undergraduate entrepreneurship program by US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Here is the blog post from Jeff. I don’t know much about the school or the program, but Jeff is one of the best writers out [...]

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