University Student Entrepreneurship Education Program

Purpose:

• To introduce university-age students to the field of entrepreneurship as a viable career option for their future.
• To encourage students to engage in a career of entrepreneurship in order to give them direction, goals, and an increased sense of self-esteem.
• To educate students on the basic skills needed to start and run a business.

Program:

• Provide engaging, academically enriching, and real-life learning via a series of business plan competitions for students which offer mentoring, education, and training, as well as scholarship opportunities for students who desire to pursue further education in entrepreneurship.
• Students receive specific mentoring in areas such as:

Identifying a market need, market size analysis, competitive landscape, proposed solution differentiators, basic financial forecasting and business plan basics.

• Students receive advanced mentoring, which expands into areas such as:

Capital raising, selecting investors, choosing a board of directors, product development, marketing, social responsibility and creating a corporate culture.