On Monday, March 25, the Ain Center hosted the third and final Mark Ain Business Model Workshop of 2019. Building on the fall Foundry Forum workshops, this series is designed to help entrepreneurs prepare for upcoming business plan competitions. This workshop – Startup Storytelling: Become a Master of Pitching – helped students learn about how to pitch a venture and tell a compelling story. We’ve summarized five key points.
Read all five tips here.
Technology transfers and commercialization can be huge components of university innovation. On March 9, Ain Teamer Vatsal Agarwal ’21 attended a conference at SUNY Brockport to learn more.
Read about Vatsal’s experience and his key takeaways here.
Xueying “Shelley” Chen ’19 and her team, Boodana, competed at the 2019 Hult Prize regionals in Toronto at the beginning of March. Though they did not advance to the finals, they gained valuable feedback to make their venture ever better.
Read more about Shelley and her team’s mission here.
Hector Castillo Carvajal ’20 recently hosted an event – Education Disparities in Developing Countries: What Can You Do? – to highlight the ongoing education disparities in the Dominican Republic. Through this event, he aimed to encourage his fellow classmates to become agents of change.
Read more about Hector’s entrepreneurial story here.
Daphne Pariser ’20 founded Humans for Education, an organization that partners with schools in developing nations to create sustainable, culturally-sensitive businesses so they can generate their own income to provide for students’ needs and help build strong communities. Daphne recently gave a TEDx talk in Rochester, where she discussed the opportunities millennials have to make a difference in their communities and beyond.
Learn more and watch Daphne’s presentation here.
A Brain and Cognitive Sciences major, Maria Connolly ’19 also has a passion for marketing and entrepreneurship. This March she attended Harvard University’s annual Social Enterprise Conference with Meliora LaunchPad, a student entrepreneurship club at UR.
Learn more about Maria’s experience with SECON and MLP here.
On Tuesday, February 26, the Ain Center hosted our second Mark Ain Business Model Workshop of 2019. Building on the fall Foundry Forum workshops, this series is designed to help entrepreneurs prepare for upcoming business plan competitions. This workshop – Money Matters: Funding Your Venture – covered a number of techniques and tricks for locating and securing funding for your project or enterprise. We’ve summarized five key points.
Read all five tips here.
On Thursday, January 31 the Ain Center hosted the first Mark Ain Business Model Workshop of the semester. Building on the fall Foundry Forum workshops, this series is designed to help entrepreneurs prepare for upcoming business plan competitions. This workshop – The Genius of a Business Plan: Be Different and Be Better – covered a number of techniques and tricks for writing the best business plan possible. We boiled down the workshop into a few key points.
Read all five tips here.
The Ain Center for Entrepreneurship recently co-hosted a workshop for entrepreneurial educator Eric Booth with Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership and the Barbara J. Burger iZone. Eric Booth shared a problem-solving framework that he utilizes to work through everything from pressing social issues to small problems.
Read more about the workshop and Cynefin Framework here.
The start of a new semester meant the inauguration of new leadership for one of the University’s entrepreneurship clubs. Meliora LaunchPad held their general interest meeting on January 25, welcoming new members and setting their agenda for Spring 2019.
Read more about Meliora LaunchPad and their mission here.
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