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*Milestones: Collect Examples, 12/2013; Design, 2/2014; Start Disseminating, 4/2014
== Strategy #2: ________Give Them the Push<br/> ==
=== Tactic #1: [Name of tactic]Venture Support Center ===
This space does not need to be an entirely new creation: it could instead be an expansion or rebranding of the NSBDC or the Tech Transfer Office. As preparation for developing such a center, interested groups will have to conduct research into the existing facilities (namely, NSBDC and TTO) and figure out what they already offer in the way of legal and logistical assistance. If their offering is already substantial, then expanding its availability and publicity to students is the only needed leap; if there are significant shortcomings or unassisted hurdles, more resources will be needed. *Team Leader: TBD from TTO or NSBDC*Milestones: Research, 1/2014 - 2/2014. Subsequent timeline depends on determined extent of facelift/resources required === Tactic #2: [Name Student Venture Fund === The Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition is a windfall for Nevada’s current innovation/entrepreneurship ecosystem, but Rick Sontag and others only meant for it to be a first step—not a central pillar. The Sontag, despite the lure of its massive size, is limited in its impact. For one, it’s nearly all-or-nothing: aside from the $50,000 winner and a $5,000 second prize, nobody who enters the Sontag sees any return on their work or noticeable incentive to continue. For another, even though entrants are often told that their ventures will receive the attention of investors, this has not actually happened to any meaningful extent yet. A student-run venture fund would address this problem head-on. First, a venture fund could disburse its money freely and proportionately instead of prescribing the single lump sum found in business plan competitions. Second, it could more closely simulate the investment climate of tactic]post-collegiate entrepreneurship. Third, it would professionally develop the students serving as fund members by teaching them to critically evaluate businesses’ viability, which would also inform their ability to plan successful businesses later on.
*Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]