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On the road to raising $250 Million for student entrepreneurs
On the latest Grid7 Entrepreneurship Podcast, Peter Burns founder of the Institute for Entrepreneurship discusses his initiative aimed at rolling out university programs for Entrepreneurship across the country. As part of this he talks about the University Entrepreneurs fund. This fund was first created last year as a $1 million venture capital fund for student entrepreneurs. Now Peter is looking to push it to $250 million and take it to a national level. Students from the Entrepreneurship program at any of the universities where the Institute for Entrepreneurship provides their program are eligible. From those programs, the best prospects can receive seed funding to get their projects off the ground. If I were still a student I’d be pretty damn excited about this program.
Overall this looks to be a great way to both train and seed the entrepreneurial spirit in young minds. Best of all, this is starting in Arizona with the College for Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon University.
This entry was posted by Kimbro Staken on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm and is filed under Grid7, Entrepreneurship . You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.