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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39aa0a41-5458-3973-461d-2a2a4daeb337"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students should begin the course with pre-existing ideas that they are passionate in pursuing. Students who have been independently working on their startup ideas and those coming out of Design Thinking with great ideas are the perfect candidates for Launching the Venture. We came up with the idea to remodel the curriculum structure by making Design Thinking a prerequisite to Launching the Venture. Again, this prerequisite should be waived if students or teams of students show that they have feasible business ideas.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39aa0a41-5458-3973-461d-2a2a4daeb337"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The remodeling of the course is not enough. These students will also need more more valuable resources, including mentorship, connections, and funding, in order for them to launch their ventures. We need an accelerator program that is effective in guiding these entrepreneurs into the right path, while at the same time, does not break Menlo College’s bank, as our financial resources are very limited. That challenge could be easily overcome because the school only needs to hire 2-3 people to run the accelerator department, where they invite mentors to work with the students, provide outside connections that students can reach out to, and most importantly, coordinate a final pitching stage, where various angel investors are invited, to attend the student’s final pitch, where they will present the business plans they have been refining for a semester.</span></span></span><br/>
== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-39aa0a41-5458-3973-461d-2a2a4daeb337"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2: Business and Technology</span></span></span></span> ==

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