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[[File:VcusquaredLogo.png|frame|right|VcusquaredLogo.png]]<div>VCUSquared is currently an umbrella group that brings three separate student entrepreneurial clubs together, with another club in development.</div><div><br/></div><div>[http://www.squared.vcu.edu/resources-at-vcu/student-clubs/ VCUSquaredVCU Squared] is a unique university-wide initiative launched by [http://www.research.vcu.edu/ott/ VCU Tech Transfer] and [http://www.davincicenter.vcu.edu/ VCU da Vinci Center] . VCU Squared is currently charged with continuously evaluating VCU’s entrepreneurial environment, developing new programs and coordinating related activities around the University. The team also works to understand the regional environment, and collaborate with external partners so that VCU and the local business communities can leverage available resources and expertise. With an umbrella group that brings three separate understanding of our larger entrepreneurial ecosystem, the VCU Squared team works to enhance the culture of entrepreneurship at VCU and harness the talent of our student entrepreneurial clubs together, with another club in developmentalumni and research community.</div>=== <span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">SEED - Products</span></span> ===

VCU Squaredis <span style="line-height: 24px;">SEED is a student entrepreneurship group dedicated to perusing medical and technologically-oriented products and businesses. Students go through a unique universityprocess of discovery, design, and implementation in project teams to build working products that solve real-wide initiative launched by&nbsp;world problems.[[httpFile://wwwSEEDlogo.researchjpg|thumb|right|300px|SEEDlogo.vcu.edujpg]]</ott/ VCU Tech Transfer]&nbsp;and&nbspspan><div><span style="line-height: 24px;">'''Contact Information:'''</span>[http</div><div><span style="line-height:24px;">Elliot Roth – seedatvcu@gmail.com</span><br/www.davincicenter.vcu.edu></ VCU da Vinci Center]div>=== <span style="line-height: 24px;">. <span style="font-size:medium;">StartUp VCU Squared is charged with continuously evaluating VCU’s entrepreneurial environment, developing new programs and coordinating related activities around the University. The team also works to understand the regional environment, and collaborate with external partners so that VCU and the local business communities can leverage available resources and expertise. With an understanding of our larger entrepreneurial ecosystem, the VCU Squared team works to enhance the culture of entrepreneurship at VCU and harness the talent of our student, alumni and research community.- Services</span></span>===

=== <span style="fontline-sizeheight:medium24px;">SEED [[File:StartupVCU.jpg|thumb|right|300px|StartupVCU.jpg]]StartUp VCU is the club for entrepreneurially minded students at the university. Made up of thinkers, dreamers, and makers from all academic disciplines and walks of life, the club is a network of students interested in bringing innovative business opportunities to life! At Startup VCU, officers and members foster creativity and encourage&nbsp;taking chances, while alumni advisers are on deck to connect and consult with project teams. The founders of Startup VCU understood that the process of starting a business is never easy, which is exactly why they created a fail safe environment to test ideas and vet new concepts. From the undergraduate level through (and beyond) graduation, Startup VCU members are prepped for and grounded in the ever- Productschanging world of entrepreneurship and innovation.</span> ===

SEED is a student entrepreneurship group dedicated to perusing medical and technologically<span style="line-oriented products and businesses. Students go through a process of discovery, design, and implementation in project teams to build working products that solve real-world problems.[[Fileheight:SEEDlogo.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]<div24px;">'''Contact Information:'''</span><div><span style="line-height: 24px;">Carmine Di Maro (President) – Dimaroc@mymail.vcu.edu</span></div>Elliot Roth <div><span style="line-height: 24px;">Jake Greenbaum (Vice-President) – seedatvcuGreenbaumjs@gmailmymail.vcu.comedu<br/span></div>=== <span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">StartUp VCU - ServicesArtUp – Creative Entrepreneurship</span></span> ===

<span style="line-height: 24px;">[[File:StartupVCUArtup.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Artup.jpg]]StartUp VCU Our goal is the club for entrepreneurially minded to unite students at the university. Made up of thinkers, dreamers, and makers from all academic disciplines and walks of life, the club is a network of students departments within VCUarts that are interested in bringing innovative business opportunities to life! At Startup VCU, officers translating their skills and members foster creativity passions into creative entrepreneurship. Through collaboration on small and encourage&nbsp;taking chancesuniversity-wide projects, ArtUp plans to bring artists together in giving back to the Richmond community while alumni advisers are on deck establishing a networking foundation profitable for their careers and learning to connect and consult with better sustain their own work. This will be done through industry specific field trips, guest speakers or hosting workshops alongside a specific collaborative project teams. The founders of Startup VCU understood that the process of starting a business is never easy, which is exactly why they created a fail safe environment group chooses to test ideas and vet new conceptswork on. From ArtUp will focus on taking change as an opportunity for innovation in order to aid students in preparing for a successful future in the undergraduate level through arts.</span><div><span style="line-height: 24px;">'''Contact Information:'''</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px;">Alexander Kreher (President) - Krehera@mymail.vcu.edu</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px;">Anna Shcherbakova (and beyondVice-President) graduation, Startup VCU members are prepped for and grounded in the ever-changing world of entrepreneurship and innovationShcherbakoay@vcu.edu</span></div>=== <span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Social Entrepreneurship</span></span> ===

'''Contact Information:'''<div>Carmine Di Maro (President) – Dimaroc@mymail.vcu.edu</div><div>Jake Greenbaum (Vice-President) – Greenbaumjs@mymail.vcu.edu</div>=== <span style="fontline-sizeheight:medium24px;">ArtUp – Creative EntrepreneurshipA new aspect of entrepreneurship to consider is that of social entrepreneurship, for those interested in helping people.&nbsp; An organization to bring in students that are interested in the sociological ramifications of entrepreneurship are drawn to this type of work.&nbsp; They will form their own club while still collaborating with the other groups at VCU.&nbsp;</span> ===

[[File:Artup.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]Our goal is to unite students from all departments within VCUarts that are interested in translating their skills and passions into creative entrepreneurship. Through collaboration on small and university-wide projects, ArtUp plans to bring artists together in giving back to the Richmond community while establishing a networking foundation profitable for their careers and learning to better sustain their own work. This will be done through industry specific field trips, guest speakers or hosting workshops alongside a specific collaborative project that the group chooses to work on. ArtUp will focus on taking change as an opportunity for innovation in order to aid students in preparing for a successful future in the arts.<div>'''Contact Information:'''</div><div<br/>&lt;/div&gt;<div>Alexander Kreher (President) - Krehera@mymail.vcu.edu</div><div>Anna Shcherbakova (Vice-President) - Shcherbakoay@vcu.edu</div>=== <span style="fontline-sizeheight:medium24px;">Social EntrepreneurshipSeparate but Connected</span> ===

A new aspect of entrepreneurship <span style="line-height: 24px;">Elliot Roth states, “Entrepreneurship is a varied subject and each student has their own wants and needs. You cannot appeal to consider everyone with a broad “entrepreneurship” club. Students will soon lose interest if the subject matter is that not related to their own interests. There are four very broad categories of social entrepreneurshipbusinesses (Health, Motion, for those interested in helping peoplePerception, Communication) and two types (Products, Services).&nbsp; An organization We are only just beginning to bring in students that form groups centered on these categories.” By segmenting the group by interests you are interested taking a large group of people with minimal interest and creating smaller passionate groups of people with real belief in the sociological ramifications of entrepreneurship goals they are drawn trying to this type of workaccomplish.&nbsp; They will form their own club while It is still collaborating with very important to keep the passions connected and working together however, as this is the other groups at VCUwhole point of interdisciplinary collaboration.&nbsp;</span>

<span style== Separate but Connected == Elliot Roth states, “Entrepreneurship is a varied subject and each student has their own wants and needs. You cannot appeal to everyone with a broad “entrepreneurship” club. Students will soon lose interest if the subject matter is not related to their own interests. There are four very broad categories of businesses (Health, Motion, Perception, Communication) and two types (Products, Services). We are only just beginning to form groups centered on these categories.” By segmenting the group by interests you are taking a large group of people with minimal interest and creating smaller passionate groups of people with real belief in the goals they are trying to accomplish.&nbsp"line-height: 24px; It is still very important to keep the passions connected and working together however, as this is the whole point of interdisciplinary collaboration. ">Bringing the future entrepreneurs together under the umbrella group and then delegating by interests allows the organization to run like a business. Everyone does the job they are best suited for but ultimately works for the larger body.&nbsp; Communication among the groups should be frequent whether through co-sponsorship of events, partnerships, working under an entrepreneurial council of combined group members, or even the simple but powerful method of meeting in the same physical location.&nbsp; Allowing the students to teach workshops or classes to one another also opens up communication.&nbsp; It allows artists to teach more creative skills to those less artistically inclined and gives artists the chance to be exposed to prototyping, management and organizational skills, or more business oriented topics. Not everyone fits the same mold and allowing the interests of the students to drive the focus of the organization allows more people to get involved at more levels.</span>