{"id":1078,"date":"2018-08-16T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me.business.holycross.edu\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T16:59:58","slug":"entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2018\/08\/16\/entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at Holy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Shark-Tank-2017-cc-036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-984 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Shark-Tank-2017-cc-036-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/em>Have an idea for a business? Interested in working with cool ideas?<br \/>\n<strong>Get involved with entrepreneurship and innovation this fall!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The extracurricular entrepreneurial opportunities offered outside of the classroom such as the Ignite Incubator, the Fullbridge Program, the Shark Tank Competition, visits to start-ups, and networking events have all furthered my desire to pursue a career in business.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; Paul Wiley &#8217;20, chemistry major<br \/>\n2017 Shark Tank Competition Winner<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Join the new Holy Cross student run Ignite Incubator! <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program is excited to launch the College\u2019s new student run incubator. The Ignite Incubator enables students from all class years to learn what it takes to bring a business to market through hands on experience. Students can either:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have their idea or business incubated in the program<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">work on other students business ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incubator is now accepting applications for both business ideas and for associate positions on the management team.<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apply NOW! Deadline: September 10, 2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/poV5aJeHPMWBKCng1\">APPLY to incubate your business<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/OKeeDF6QT4RywQap2\">APPLY to become an associate on the management team<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; Fall Course: Entrepreneurship 101<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nTue. &amp; Thu. from 12:30-1:45pm<br \/>\nProf. Ja-Na\u00e9 Duane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entrepreneurship begins with a vision. \u00a0This course focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and is appropriate for students from any major. \u00a0It is designed to introduce students to the entrepreneurial process so that they may begin to shape their own entrepreneurial vision. Course objectives include an introduction to the challenges of entrepreneurship, an understanding of the ethical environment in which entrepreneurs operate, the skills to think critically and work toward the ability to evaluate opportunities in the business. This is a course that includes project-based entrepreneurial activities where students work to test and validate ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who should take this course?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students who have a business idea<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students who want to work on existing business idea<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students who want to explore the field of entrepreneurship and innovation <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Space is limited. Seats available for second, third and fourth year students.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; Have questions?<\/strong> Reach out to Ja-Na\u00e9 Duane, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, for more program details!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have an idea for a business? Interested in working with cool ideas? Get involved with entrepreneurship and innovation this fall! &nbsp; &#8220;The extracurricular entrepreneurial opportunities offered outside of the classroom such as the Ignite Incubator, the Fullbridge Program, the Shark Tank Competition, visits to start-ups, and networking events have all furthered my desire to pursue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2018\/08\/16\/entrepreneurship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at Holy Cross&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,56,84,98,117,145,149,160,227,234,237,243,385,426,503,514],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-business","tag-chu","tag-college-of-the-holy-cross","tag-course","tag-duane","tag-eir","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-holy-cross","tag-ignite","tag-incuabtor","tag-innovation","tag-program","tag-shark-tank","tag-wiley","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}