<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Establish a relationship with university leaders<br/> • Intro (short paragraph on why you needed this connection)</span>Introduction ==
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">As with any large change in a university, you need a university individual with influence to help champion your idea. Establishing an undergraduate student incubator is no different. University officials are infinitely more likely to support an idea already supported by a prominent university figure then they are to support enthusiastic students. The trick is to land that first influential supporter and then expand from there.<br/> • People (who you wanted to connect with)</span>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN"cite>The leaders of the engineering school(It's), as well as the business and medicine departments come all about that first. Leaders of the entire university work as well, such as the presidential role, but these are rare and, surprisingly, not as valuable in the early stages. The value lies in the ability to influence others to agree that developing an incubator is a good idea. Sometimes, presidents in a college are not as influential as the leader of an engineering, business or medical department head in this regardconnection. However, everyone has to come on board during the late stages of a given incubators opening to show a strong community level of support. <br/> • Materials (what supporting data or materials you brought with you to meetings)</spancite>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">The basics, laid out plainly. Why you want an incubator, what it can do for the school, what you need Who to open it and why that is a good investment, when is the soonest it can be open, how they can help.<br/> • Process (what steps you took and who you interacted connect with)</span>? ==
<span style="font-size:9The leaders of the engineering school(s), as well as the business and medicine departments come first.5pt;font-family:ArialLeaders of the entire university work as well, such as the presidential role, but these are rare and, surprisingly,sans-serif" lang="EN">UCSD’s was not student initiated and had large departmental support from as valuable in the beginningearly stages. It started with The value lies in the ability to influence others to agree that developing an incubator is a donor gift which then gained momentumgood idea. The mechanical and aerospace department and computer science Sometimes, presidents in a college are not as influential as the leader of an engineering, business or medical department took on a joint effort head in developing the center and hiring full time staffthis regard. Space was allocated and a committee was selected However, everyone has to hire come on board during the initial director late stages of the centera given incubators opening to show a strong community level of support.</span>
<cite><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN"> • Timeline (how much time it took from idea to connection)Many will doubt your cause initially but then will readily join in on the band wagon once some other noteworthy person has supported you.</span></cite>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">The full process took around half a year to build, hire and open the center, which What is quite fast.<br/> • Results (what happened as a result of your connection)</span>needed before getting started? ==
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">I came on mid-stage as the #Why do you want an incubator was being built. I helped with design, layout and organization of ?#What can it do for the undergraduate student groups school?#What is needed to get open it?#Why is it a good investment?#When is the first cohort going. This resulted in me being hired on part time as a student advisor, then later as a more removed consulting role as commitments drew me elsewhere.<br/> • Follow-up (what plans exist soonest it can be open?#How can [who you are presenting to maintain that connection)</span>] help?
<cite><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">I still consult Never discount the value of a good presentation for the why an incubator, speaking with the director about overall goals and how to implement them near termis a good thing.<br/span> • Lessons learned and tips for others (what worked and what didn’t, and your recommendations for others)</spancite>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">It’s all about that first influential connection. Once you get that, you’re golden. Never discount What is the value of a good presentation process for why an incubator is a good thing. Many will doubt your cause initially but then will readily join in on building the band wagon once some other noteworthy person has supported you. Everything after that – be it finding/building space, raising money, hiring staff, accepting teams – all becomes easy (relatively, of course).</span>center? ==
<span style="font-size:9Perhaps the easiest way to build the incubator and fund is to at this point, shift the initiation from the students to the administration.5pt font-family:ArialIf by now you've convinced the University that they '''need '''an incubator,sans-serif" lang="EN">Run you can network the different interested departments together to take a club or organization<br/> • Intro (short paragraph describing your club)</span>joint effort in developing the center.
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">TEDxUCSD was a group of 19 that created and held What is the first ever TEDx event on campus. In our first year, we raised 35 thousand dollars and had 18 accomplished speakers at our event of more than 500 attendees.<br/> • Need and goal (what you did to continue to assess the need and how this would fill that need)</span>timeline? ==
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Ambiguous question, but the goal was to create an awesome event for the UCSD community, then do things to support that.<br/> • Academic support (what kind of support is needed to maintain the club)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Three individuals are USCD''key:'' a banker, a lawyer and starter. A starter is someone who gets you going, who knows places on campus where you can get that early funding, who can help you book venues and convince universtiy leadership that this is a good idea. A lawyer is someone who can help you figure out all of the contracts. This might not happen for every student group, but ours s incubator was doing big things, and people wanted assurances that they were all going to work out. Legally binding documents are scary, unless you have someone to help walk you through them. Lastly, you need a banker: someone to help manage your university accounts, to help companies use a universities 501c3 status to donate as a tax write-off, to help prioritize five-digit costs and timetables. Students need help with all of these things, so make sure you have those three people if starting an influential group.<br/> • Audience (who joined the club)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">18 core members, 20 volunteers the day of the event, 18 speakers, 550 audience attendees.<br/> • Leadership (who leads the club, and what leadership roles exist)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Dual-president role, followed by 4 groups of 4: finance, media, marketing, speaker relations.<br/> • Faculty (academic mentors or liaisons)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Again, three individuals are ''key:'' a banker, a lawyer and starter.<br/> • Space (where the club meets)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Registered student organization with access to dozens of meeting rooms on campus.<br/> • Activities (what activities does the club lead and/or partake launched in)</span> <span style="font-size:9just six months.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">A TEDx event.<br/> • Promotion (how the club membership This is promoted to other students)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Facebook, twitter, flyering, setting up quite a table during “university club day”fast example, word of mouth<br/> • Maintenance (how you keep members interested and engaged)</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Everything revolves around the event. If you don’t like your task, we but it can either try to transfer you to a different one, or take someone else onto the team. This is fine, we understand people have other commitments, but we take advantage that we have a waiting list of 50 students at a time with submitted applications who want to get on the team.<br/> • Connections (how your club connects with other organizations, the university, and the community)</span> <span style="font-size:9be done.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN">Joint org events featuring 2 speakers and 250 audience members. We represent our university. TEDxSanDiego was afraid we would steal too much of their audience because we got so big.<br/> • Lessons learned and tips for others (what worked and what didn’t, and your recommendations for others)</span> Go big, even if its your first year. Get a large team to help you, 4 members for every 100 individuals you plan to host. </div>