Resources and Links
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” –Nolan Bushnell (Entrepreneur)
Events Past and Present
- Case Competitions - List of case competitions
- Tibetan Innovation Challenge - Social entrepreneurship contest
- Beiersdorf International Internship Challenge - Case Competition.
Scholarships
- National Founder’s Undergraduate Business Student Scholarship - Scholarship for students interested in entrepreneurship
Inspiring Stories
- 5 Ways to Kill Your Dreams - TED Talk by Bel Pesce
- Advice from 17 Entrepreneurs around the world
- This American Life - Listen to the first two segments: Detroit’s Youngest Entrepreneur and 99 Problems.
- One women makes $1 million per year on Etsy - Especially impressed by the last line - where she points out that she is still working her butt off to grow her business
- A lab the size of a postage stamp (TED Talk containing a call for chemistry researchers to develop new tools for the developoing world)
Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
- Student Competitions - Entrepreneurial Competitions for students from high school to grad school
Student-Driven Entrepreneurship
- Homi App - connecting students and alumni
- More funding for Philly college startups: Meet Contrary Capital - investors interested in funding student startups
Resources
- How to Put Together a Business Plan
- SCORE Visa Financial Management Workbook
- What’s my business model? powerpoint
- Business Opportunities Blog
- Investing in a Business (from Annuity.org)
- How to Start and Run Your Own Business
- DFJ Thought Leaders Entrepreneurial Series - Stanford University
- TED Talk: Your body language may shape who you are