[[Category<u>'''Elliott Roth's Landscape Analysis (Presentation Summary):Universities]]'''</u> ''Finding your secret super power:'' *Elliot’s secret super power is time travel. He has a giant vision, always thinks ahead, and comes up with big ideas.*This super power is very helpful when he’s coming up with ideas, but it isn’t particularly detail-oriented.*Elliot tries to pair himself with engineers who can help him plan and execute his ideas, balancing his strengths with the strengths of others. ''Society for Engineering and Entrepreneurial Design (SEED):'' *One of the main points of SEED is to offer people credit for the projects they work on outside of the classroom.*Elliot met with department chairs to gain support for SEED’s initiatives at VCU. This included Engineering, Art, and Business School chairs who all seemed very receptive to SEED’s ideas.*SEED is seeking a partnership with the greater Richmond community because there isn’t a huge entrepreneurial drive at VCU aside from the campus Da Vinci center for solving problems at companies.*SEED is talking to the VCU brand center to find mentors for SEED projects.*SEED is talking to the InnoVArium project space for design teams, hoping to partner with them soon. ''Advice from Elliot Roth:'' Contact people as much as possible and <u>build partnerships</u>.*“Cold emailing” (emailing strangers) can be very challenging—try to find people who can introduce you to a contact via email, to increase the response rate.