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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 : Creating 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 interact with entrepreneurs during the school year. *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 #3: Hosting Start-up/Entrepreneurial Section at Penn State's Career Fair == *Description: Penn State invites over 500 companies take our ecosystem to recruit during the career fairnext level, and almost none of them are small companies. Many Penn State students want to do that is something entrepreneurial but lack experience. By hosting a startup section, or an entrepreneurial section during the career fair, students that will be able to talk to companies that they want really need to work forchange. This allows them a chance to enhance their entrepreneurial skill while ganing experience. *Team Leader: Mridul Bhandari*Milestones: *Talk to companies to gage interest 10/13*Talk to career fair administration 11/13*Talk to Engineering and IST department heads for a push to career fair administration 12/13*Contact startups and entrepreneurship companies 2/13*Hold a test run 3/13*Construct sustainable plan 5/13
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