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*Description: We want to take stories from inspirational entreprenuerial alumni, and share them with exisiting students in an easily accesible format. We hope that by showing students what their predeccesors have accomplished, it may inspire them to take a leap of faith in to entreprenuership. We will dispurse this information through the above marketing channels.
= Strategy #2: Applied: Bettering Innovation Spaces and CommunicationCreating a Buzzing Culture of I&E around Campus<br/> =
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
== Primary Tactic #1: Building Two Innovation Spaces Increasing VC Presence ==
*Description: By building two innovation spaces We have noticed that many of the US Entreprenuership hubs have a booming VC environment to foster two different type of accompany the growing businesses. Our hope, is that by increasing visits from major VC partners/companies, students we will want enable more local/university based startups to venture more into entrepreneurshipflorish. For a service based business, the innovation space should be built This will in the business school. For turn increase our reputation as a product based business, the innovation space should be built in the engineering or IST school. The product based innovation space should include woodwork startup university and manufacturing machineryattract more VCs.*Team Leader:Ideas: TBD*MilestonesInvestor Bus Tours like [https: *Talk to department heads/president /www.events.revolution.com/ Rise of university 12/13the Rest]*Get student, faculty Elevating the few VC firms that are present at Penn State: 1855 Capital and alumni support 3/14Contrary Capital*Find donors 6/14*Construct a plan with heads of the university 10/14Work to increase Contrary Capital's presence on campus
== Secondary Tactic #2: Local Career Fair Changing the Rules ==
*Description: Hold Penn State currently has a career fair for local businesses and students interested in working during schoolrule that no revenue generating business can be started or operated on campus. This allows students If we want to take our ecosystem to interact with entrepreneurs during the school yearnext level, that is something that will really need to change. *Team Leader:: Mridul Bhandari*Milestones: *Get businesses involved 9/13*Inform students 10/13*Test run 11/13*Create a sustainable plan 1/14
== Tactic Strategy #3: Hosting Start-up/Entrepreneurial Section at Penn State's Career Fair =Increasing Entry Point Quality and Visibility =
= Impact =Tactic #1: Creating a Checklist ==<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Description: We are hoping to create a small and easy to use checklist for Freshmen to use to explore the I&E ecosystem. We want to include this resource in the NSO materials that accepted students receive when they first arrive on campus. The checklist will be a simple flyer with little tasks that students can accomplish to "get their feet wet" in the ecosystem.<br/></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/></div>== Tactic #2: Spend A Summer Day ==<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Description: The university has a "Spend A Summer Day" program that allows prospective students to explore academic disciplines or colleges that they may be interested in at Penn State. Given that Invent Penn State as nearly as many facets as a college, we believe that we can create an information session that students can attend which allows them to get a taste for the PSU I&E resources. Additionally, students voluntarily sign up for these session, which means we would be getting in front of the interested demographic.</div><div><br/></div>
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