*To facilitate collaboration with community organizations to strengthen minority business.
*To encourage and support research in entrepreneurship and e-business.
*To support fellow colleagues pursing a venture and/or gain support from alumni.
= Activities =
*Seminars and Workshops
**The seminars and workshops, while providing a valuable education to our students and local entrepreneurs, also provide an excellent networking opportunity for students and faculty.
*Incubator
**The ICEEB has developed a space for student entrepreneurs to work on their projects. This space is also used for networking events and workshops tailored to entrepreneurs.
*Entrepreneurship Clinic
**The Center of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation has put together an informative series with dynamic consultants to cultivate your ideas and feed your current knowledge on the subject of entrepreneurship.
*Collegiate Entrepreneurs Conference
**The ICEEB sponsors the Annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Conference to showcase and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that is thriving on the North Carolina A&T State University Campus. The one-day event includes student presentations, workshops, keynote speaker, and networking opportunities.
*Aggie Accelerator
**This is fast paced start-up development program that spans 8 weeks during the semester. Twelve students are selected to participate where they -
***understand and apply the build, measure, learn philosophy of lean startup development
***know the structure of the problem interview methodology
***draft and refine a customer interview script
***test that script using first improve and then real-world prospective customers
***prospect potential interviewees to continue desirability testing
***know the resources to leverage to build an MVP, particularly non-software development options
***become familiar with the best practices for finding and vetting software partners
***become familiar with resources to quantify their progress toward customer-problem fit on their way to achieving product-market fit.
***understand the structure of the business model, B2C, B2B platform
***project costs associated with the next 6 months of operations, focused specifically on customer discovery and development activities
***understand and apply principles of value-based pricing
***project revenue associated with the next 6 months of operations
***understand the importance of evaluating company financial sustainability and the concept of opportunity costs
***calculate their run-rate and runway
*Awards
= Related Links =
[http://wwwuniversityinnovation.ncat.eduorg/academicswiki/schools-colleges1North_Carolina_Agricultural_and_Technical_State_University http:/sbe/mgmtuniversityinnovation.org/iceeb%20program.html Iwiki/North_Carolina_Agricultural_and_Technical_State_University] [http://wwwuniversityinnovation.ncat.eduorg/wiki/academicsNorth_Carolina_A%26T_Student_Priorities http:/schools-colleges1/sbeuniversityinnovation.org/mgmtwiki/iceebNorth_Carolina_A%20program26T_Student_Priorities] = University Innovation Fellows: = '''2019''' *[[Dorian Holmes|Dorian Holmes]]*[[Jaelyn Phillips|Jaelyn Phillips]] '''2017''' *[[Folasade Adekanle|Folasade Adekanle]]*[[Princeton Perry|Princeton Perry]]*[[Katarrey Smith|Katerry Smith]]*[[Talia Thomas|Talia Thomas]] '''2016''' *[http://universityinnovation.html ntedisciplinary Center for Entrepreneurship and e-Businessorg/wiki/Bria_Bridges Bria Bridges]*[[Jaclynn Dearring|Jaclynn Dearring]] <br/>'''2015'''
*[[Wwwhttp://universityinnovation.ncat.edu|<u>North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University<org/wiki/u>]Angelica_Willis Angelica Willis]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/NC_A%26T_Strategic_Plan <u>NC A&T Strategic Plan<br/u>]'''2014'''
*[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joseph_Shelton <u>Joseph Shelton</u>]
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