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Priorities:James Madison University Student Priorities

2018-02-06T15:42:58Z

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= Project Pitch Video =

[https://youtu.be/IjWHk05M9Ac James Madison University Cohort 4A Video Pitch]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQchRx6HDM Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurial Opportunities at James Madison University ]

= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #1</span> =

Create Collisions amongst entrepreneurially minded students and the general population amongst all disciplines, in order to organically spread innovation, collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

== Tactic #1: Theme Based Think-A-Thons ==

*Description: Cultivate talent in theme based hack-a-thon style events that correlate to the various colleges of academics, but appeal to the general population. We would want to create a brand that does not alienate or intimidate students that don’t necessarily think of this as “their” thing.
**1-2 times per month
**24hr Think-A-Thons
**Various themes/prompts that represent the interests of all the colleges of academics
***College of Education:
****Reinvent the classroom
***College of Health and Behavioral Studies:
****Create low-cost products that meet basic needs of the world's poorest people
***Integrated Science and Technology / School of Art, Design, and Art History:
****Designing for a sustainable campus
****Fashion Think-A-Thon
**The theme of these thinker-mixers/hack-a-thons would vary each time and would touch on topics that are up-to-date with current events to help attract students from all colleges within JMU. This in turn, would help continuity of participation and the dismantlement of silos.
**Gathering participant information gives us a more defined target audience to project some marketing efforts towards.
**Approaching these events with hopes of there being multi-disciplinary teams does not expedite the view that these are hack-a-thons or "techie" events.  This merely generates exploratory and problem-solving experiences to any given area of study.

== Tactic #2: Make the I&E Network Accessible to Students ==

*Description: Launch a heavily marketed website that establishes a network for students looking to collaborate and pursue a business or product idea. This JMU affiliated website would help spread awareness of funding opportunities, resources available on campus, upcoming I&E events, and clubs/groups.
*Replicate a Landspace Canvas for I&E or create a landscape map to guide students through the process of finding relevent resources on campus for their prospective entrepreneurs. 
**Daniel Phonelath will spearhead this project.

== Tactic #3: 100 Level Collaborative Course  ==

*'''Course Description''': A 100 level course that will bring freshman across a variety of majors together to help with the transition from high school to college. This course will utilize group discussions and short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth. 
*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week long projects.
**<u>Leadership</u>: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Through out the course as they finish a 3 week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive reviews from their team members. At the end of the course a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feed back and completed the leadership challenge workbook.
**<u>Creativity</u>: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and further their understanding through the text; "Creative Confidence" By David and Tom Kelly. 
**<u>Design Thinking:</u> The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
**<u>Public Presentations</u>: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event. 
*Course Plan
**Find the best way to register the course on MyMadison by Oct. 23, 2018 
**Continue interviewing professors who show interest in coleading the course until Nov. 6, 2018
**Meeting with all stakeholders and potential course coleaders to create plan of action-Nov.9-13, 2018

= <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Strategy #2:</span> =

Establish an entity on campus where any student with a creative idea can get all the resources needed to become the entrepreneur they want to be, and test, launch, and grow their business.

== <span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #1: MadX Labs</span> ==

*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed stage startup accelerator.   
**MadX Labs aims to serve JMU’s most talented student founders, giving them the best of both worlds by leveraging the resources of an entire University and its network. We give young entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, office space, and funding they need in order to test, launch, and grow their business – while maintaining a status as a student.
**University-wide, students are encourage to apply to MadX Labs startup accelerator two times a year in the beginning of each semester during “The Madison Challenge”, and if selected as winners they enter into the 12-week program and receive the mentorship, office space, and funding. After the 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, where they will have the opportunity to pitch an invite only audience of JMU investors
**Agenda for planning:
***January 2015 - Launch of Beta(Completed)
***April 2015 - Close of Program - Demo Day
***September 2015 - University Wide Launch
***December 2015 - Close of First Official Program

= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #3</span> =

Provide opportunities for incoming students and underclassmen to become introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship as well as recognize their potential to become entrepreneurs at an early point in their collegiate careers. This strategy will revolve around creating and marketing well known opportunites and physical spaces for students to express their innovative minds as well as stimulate team collaboration. 

== Tactic #1: Pop-Up Courses ==

*Description: Continue the spread of several “test courses” that can provide administration with an example of how a pattern of entrepreneurial and innovative courses in the General Education Program can lead to escalating forms of venture creation.
**February 2018
***Continue to host the "Pop-Up" classes in the JMU X-Labs maker space.
***Work on gaining feedback through response forms and questionarres. 
**April 2018
***Expand Pop-Up courses to a large capacity for more involvement.
***Increase the range of topics in the Pop-Up classes outside of typical STEM classes.
**May 2018
***Work on continuing Pop-Up classes outreach and schedule more Pop-Up classes for the Fall semester.

== Tactic #2: Summer Program ==

*Description: Continiue a four to five week ideation and entrepreneurship summer program for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores. This apply-for and optional course would not only fuel the entrepreneur mindset for these underclassmen early in their college career but it would also help mix students and provide infrastructure for a network of collaborators. The program would be open to all majors.
*Timeline: 6-Week program led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison.This 'Accelorator' helps students start ventures and allow them to grow in the X-Labs space.

== Tactic #3: Spread the Word ==

*Description: Create medium-scale marketing campaign of the JMU X-Labs. 
*Tools: The following tools will be used to help spread the word of the Labs.
**Social Media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
**On Campus Resources such as flyers, banners, and post-cards.
*Timeline: Can start immediately in Febrauary 2018. This could take place as a flash-marketing campaign or a long term strategy.

= Strategy #4:<br/> =

Create a culture on campus that elevates JMU national visibility in I&E in order to attracts the most talented entrepreneurially minded faculty and students.<br/> 

== Tactic #1: Develop a Hub ==

*Description: Develop, design, fundraise, and build a hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation that includes living space, maker spaces, open workspace, etc.
**To prove a need for this hub, we plan to use the spaces that currently exist on and around campus to establish smaller-scale environments in which student thinkers and entrepreneurs can come to work on their projects and collaborate on ideas.
**Through this beacon of entrepreneurship, offer a wide variety of programs and engagement opportunities for students to learn about and engage in all phases of the entrepreneurship and innovation process.
***“Idea mixers” or “idea factory workshops” that are heavily marketed

= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategy #5</span></span><br/> =
<div><span style="font-size: small;">Provide opportunities for students to engage in entrepreunership and innovation with the greater local and regional community.</span></div>
== Tactic #1: Regional Meet-up ==

*Description: The regional meet-up will bring UIF students from campuses within a 5-hour driving distance to James Madison University campus. Through various workshop students will understand JMU’s campus and share their own experiences from their respective campuses. Current James Madison University UIF members will create a collaborative environment for students to share ideas with each other. 

== Tactic #2: Corporate Outreach/Integration Efforts ==

*Description: The goal is to connect corporate environments with higher education. We will approach this by connecting with well-known and widely respected corporate entities such as Google in order to organize "high-demand/interest" events and talks out of our ICE resources. All events should be informational, interactive and the hope is to connect students with coporate resources as they progress through their course-load and approach graduation.

= <span style="font-size:x-large;">Related Links</span> =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University James Madison University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Student_Priorities James Madison University Student Priorities]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Madison_University_Innovative_Spaces James Madison University Innovation Spaces]

== <u>Fellows</u> ==

[[Chris Ashley|Chris Ashley]]

[[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neill]]

[[Andrew Carlone|Andrew Carlone]]

[[Timothy Moore|Timothy Moore]]

[[Emily Platt|Emily Platt]]

[[Mark Castro|Mark Castro]]

[[Nahom Fissaha|Nahom Fissaha]]

[[Greg Mayo|Greg Mayo]]

[[Ryan Ohneiser|Ryan Ohneiser]]

[[Daniel Phonelath|Daniel Phonelath]]

[[Jared Michael Zurn|Jared Michael Zurn]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Catharine_Willett Catharine Willett]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grace_carter Grace Carter]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_steven_anderson Kyle Anderson]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Connor_bergeron Connor Bergeron]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jack_Boone Jack Boone]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anne_rusher Anne Rusher]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Stephanie_Morales Stephanie Morales]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marian_Gerlitzki Marian Gerlitzki] 

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/PEYTON_PITTMAN Peyton Pittman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Natalie_Dillinger Natalie Dillinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kareem_Ebraham Kareem Ebraham]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emma_de_Leon Emma de Leon]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lexy_Foor Lexy Foor]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sally_Todd Sally Todd]

Skylar Wollen

Claire Fulk 

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Fellow:Christian Caruso

2018-01-16T15:47:17Z

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2018-01-16T15:47:04Z

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2018-01-16T15:46:48Z

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2018-01-16T15:45:49Z

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2018-01-16T15:45:10Z

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Organization:Startup Commons

2018-01-16T15:35:26Z

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= Overview =

Startup Commons is an organization that helps others facilitate a efficient enviroment for their startup. They aim to make the ecosystem of the startup organized and focused on "innovation, entrepreneruship, talen, finance, policy, and international connections". They have alot of experience assisting different government systems in diffrent parts of the world as well as 6 years of startup ecosystem research and develeopment. They have a good foundation to help others build their startups domestically and internationally. 

= Purpose =

Entreprenuership is a large of any economy and helps increase the amount of technological innovation that is happening - which they claim pushes societies forward. By allowing people a space in which to organize their ideas they help drive that desire to find solutions to today's problems for a better tomorrow. 

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =

This company has a wide range of skills and experience among the team. Many of them are entreprenerus themselves and have worked in government or economic development. Having this kind of foundation and network can be important when looking into a startup because sometimes it is about the people that you now. Also having an organized platform among the team that is attempting to do a startup will help them efficiently and effectively move forward. 

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =
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= Notes About How This Resource is Deployed =

The Startup Commons Resource is deployed via online Software as a Service (SaaS) digital solution. Startup Commons has a build in SaaS portal on to their hope page with many technical resources. Their services include a Information Hub Ecosystem Portal, Portable User Accounts, as well as online key performance indicator Business Planning tools. Each other these services offer a different set of skills in relevant functional areas of a start up. Some of the software's include business and financial planning as well as end-user accessable websites. Overal,, Startup Commons' digital services help drive innovation and entrepreneurship in our 21st century world. 

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

Currently they have something called the Startup Ecosystem Scouts which is a program that aims to educate univeristy students about economic development, startup ecosystems and research. Qualifications mostly involve an interest in this area and while they have target cities it is possible to reach out to them to start a SES team in your city. The application is on their website for Spring 2018: www.startupcommons.org/startup-ecosystem-scouts.html. 

= Contact Information =

They are located at: <font color="#6b6767">One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, <br/></font><font style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(107, 103, 103); font-family: "Droid Serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" size="3">36th Floor, CA 94105, San Francisco</font>

They do not have a phone number or email listed on their site that I was able to find under the contact page. The best way to contact them is to send them a message through the form they have including your email and a short message. 

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