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== <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ea59471-ec18-88e3-205f-1cfb80e7531b"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic: &nbsp;Multidisciplinary Startup Venture</span></span></span></span> ==<div><span style="font-size:medium;">&nbsp<span style="color:#000000; ">&nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; Something that our landscape canvas revealed about Santa Clara University was that there was a clear gap when it comes to pursuing a startup venture and applying the innovative and design skills</span></span><span style="font-sizefamily:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">skills&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:medium#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">into</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#000000;">a </span><span style="color:#000000;">real and practical sense. Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley and sitting on top of many valuable resources, SCU does not do enough to foster the development of student-driven startups and fails to encourage collaboration and experimentation across different disciplines within the Business, Engineering and Arts and Science schools.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;To remedy this, we outlined a startup competition which pairs students from multiple disciplines as well as industry professionals and professors to organize an idea and bring it into a real, physical startup. This would be a yearlong commitment where most of Fall Quarter would be spent in the team and skill building phase. Students would organize amongst themselves and pitch startup ideas to industry professionals/professors who are interesting in providing their expertise to those ideas</span></span>ideas to fruition<span style="font-sizecolor:medium#000000;"></span><span style="font-familycolor:arial,helvetica,sans-serif#000000;">into</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-familycolor:arial,helvetica,sans-serif#000000;">fruition. After teams organize themselves, Winter quarter would be where the idea finally transcends into a real startup. Teams would develop business strategies, produce prototypes of their product or service, develop marketing tools, create a distribution system and search for potential investors. School funding&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gr-progress"><span style="font-size:medium;">as</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span class="gr-progress">as <span style="color:#000000;">well as resources such as the Maker </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gr-progress"><span style="color:#000000;"></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000000;">Lab</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gr-progress"><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color:#000000;">would </span><span style="color:#000000;">be accessible to students to eliminate any financial risks and apprehension. Finally, by the end of Spring Quarter, students would present their startup and be judged by industry professionals, potentially having their ideas and talent taken beyond the campus confinements and into either a company or on their own as a fully functional startup.</span></span></span></div>