Entrepreneurship clubs help students turn their ideas and passions into businesses and develop future business leaders.
Ryan Allis and Aaron Houghton met at
an entrepreneurship club while attending the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Within three days of meeting, the
two had the idea for their company iContact that helps small businesses manage their
e-mail marketing. iContact now has 63,000 customers and generated $26.5
million in revenue last year. With the creation of entrepreneurship
clubs, colleges and universities across the country are becoming small
business development incubators.
According to the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation, over 2100 colleges and universities were
offering entrepreneurship education programs by 2006. These programs
and centers vary in their execution, but often help students cultivate a
startup business idea, teach them basic strategies like estimating
costs and writing a business plan, and help them network their ideas
toward sources of funding.
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Author: Lilah Raptopoulos
