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The second strategy in setting a cultural precedent for entrepreneurship is to ensure that the people who do get involved are given every resource to actually commit to their ventures. The students who enter business plan competitions today are too easily dispelled from taking their projects to market, either by attractive job prospects or by inability to take the final steps toward incorporation. Therefore, bodies that help bridge the gap between academic exercise and functioning company—functioning incubators, student venture funds, legal assistance groups—could result in more startups and in more student examples.
[http://prezi.com/-0p-nk3qgcnk/fanning-the-flames/ Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem: = Calling all Students = Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students) *Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href=""></a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]*When: [Date, Time]*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]
= Strategy #1: Sow a Widespread Entrepreneurial Culture<br/> =
Reno will eventually need a critical mass of startups to really ignite its reputation as an innovative/entrepreneurial hotbed. To develop that critical masscommunity, the University has to fuel a culture of entrepreneurship over the next 2-3 years.
== Tactic #1: Local Entrepreneurial Guest Speakers<br/> ==
<span style="font-size: 12px;">The best way to change culture is by example: Reno and Nevada have to show, not tell, that they have an ecosystem that supports entrepreneurship and a culture that encourages it. To this end, publicized guest lectures that drive home entrepreneurial lessons, ambitions, and successes would start to put innovative thoughts in students’ heads—especially if these thoughts came from the entrepreneurs behind new, relevant, and important businesses. </span>A hard-hitting series of entrepreneurial guest lectures would be the ideal way to pull this off. It’d require exceptional, national-level connections: local entrepreneurs, though directly relevant, might not have the kind of pull that this plan needs. Reaching out to Vegas and Silicon Valley is probably the best way to balance locality with notoriety; ideally, executives from companies like Google and Zappos would be able to contribute their wisdom and celebrity to the effort.
*Team Leader: Nolan Nicholson
*Milestones: Connect, 12/2013-1/2014; Plan Events, 2-3/2014
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