*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.
= <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 #21: Technical Skills SessionsMadX Labs</span> ==
= •*Description: Test, iterate, and scale MadX Labs, JMU’s first seed stage startup accelerator. Description: Often**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 students need entrepreneurs at JMU the opportunity to learn some basic skills before experience a traditional accelerator program; with the mentorship, training, office space, and funding they are ready need in order to take on test, launch, and grow their business – while maintaining a design projectstatus as a student. One way **University-wide, students are encourage to apply to do this would be skills seminars MadX Labs startup accelerator two times a year in the design room that include 3D CAD drawingbeginning of each semester during “The Madison Challenge”, arduinosand if selected as winners they enter into the 12-week program and receive the mentorship, etcoffice space, and funding. AlsoAfter the 12 weeks, the program culminates in a Demo Day, it may be conducive to get students where they will have the opportunity to apply pitch an invite only audience of JMU investors**Agenda for machine room certification so that they can work safely in the shop when their design has reached that stage. 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
• Team Leader: TBD • Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy] = == Tactic #3: Host Design Competitions =<br/> = = • Description: Another way to inspire students is to actually host design competitions in the incubator space. This could mean finding a competition through “mindsumo.com” or facilitating the completion of a project for entry in a local competition like the Randall Big Idea Competition. A winner in one of these competitions is very likely to attract many other students to the space. • Team Leader: TBD Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy] =
= Strategy #3: Increase awareness of I&E on campus =