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EarlyShares CMO to Host Small Business Marketing Webinar for FIU Entrepreneurship Center on Jan. 28
Miami, FL (PRWEB) January 24, 2014
EarlyShares, a funding platform that connects passionate entrepreneurs with smart investors, today announced that its Chief Marketing Officer Salomon Wancier is hosting an upcoming “Entrepreneurs’ How To” webinar in collaboration with the Florida International University Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, housed at the College of Business.
The webinar, “7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success,” will take place Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 11:00 am EST. The webinar will be open to the public. Registration is available here.
The webinar will introduce the seven steps all business owners should take to implement a comprehensive marketing system for their businesses. Attendees will:
Become familiar with the 7 steps of executing a successful marketing plan, based on the Duct Tape Marketing Point of View
Learn how to identify ideal clients and define differentiation strategies
Learn the realities of marketing a product or service in today’s market.
Establish the blueprints to a marketing system for their ventures
Webinar host Salomon Wancier of EarlyShares is an accomplished, creative senior executive with more than 17 years of experience leading marketing and sales initiatives for financial services companies and other businesses. Prior to joining EarlyShares, Salomon was Founder and Principal of SolutionIQ, a successful marketing agency that he led to its recent sale to Illuminati Studios. In earlier roles Salomon managed Fortune 1000 accounts and built cross-functional teams for both startups and industry-leading companies. An authorized Duct Tape Marketing Consultant, he earned an MBA from the University of Miami and is fluent in Spanish.
EarlyShares, launched in 2011, is an equity funding platform that posts general solicitation investment offerings and rewards-based crowdfunding campaigns. By leveraging technology and social media, EarlyShares connects entrepreneurs and small business owners to investors in support of great ideas.
To register and gain access to equity investment offerings and crowdfunding campaigns on EarlyShares, click here.
About EarlyShares
EarlyShares, based in Miami, FL, is a funding platform that hosts equity offerings and rewards-based crowdfunding campaigns on EarlyShares.com. The company has created the funding platform of the future, where small investments ignite big ideas. EarlyShares connects individuals, investors and communities enabling them to invest in companies, support projects, and earn rewards in an efficient, trusted, and secure environment. To learn more, visit EarlyShares.com.
About the FIU Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center:
The Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center facilitates the entrepreneurial activities at Florida International University, and coordinates outreach programs for the business community of South Florida. Founded in 2003 with the support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, the Pino Center was designated a Kauffman Campus, and is housed in the College of Business at FIU. For more information about the Pino Center, please visit http://www.entrepreneurship.fiu.edu or call 305-779-9230.
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Jake Jabs Pledges $ 10 Million Toward Entrepreneurship Center, Largest Gift in CU Denver History
Denver, CO (PRWEB) May 01, 2013
The University of Colorado Denver Business School is poised to dramatically expand its entrepreneurship education, research, programmatic reach, and caliber—thanks to a $ 10 million pledge by Jake Jabs, founder and CEO of American Furniture Warehouse, to CU Denver.
With this gift, the newly renamed Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship will expand its annual Business Plan Competition to encompass universities throughout Colorado and the West. It will enable the build-out of a named marquee space for the new Business School building. It will fund new endowments for a professorship, faculty research, programming and operations.
In sum, Jabs’ gift will strengthen all aspects of the entrepreneurship center, foster connections between entrepreneurs and students region-wide, and bolster the center’s stature as it progresses toward becoming one of the top academic entrepreneurship centers in the nation.
Jabs’s gift is nearly double the total of the largest prior cash commitment to CU Denver, and leads a wave of more than $ 20 million in private support toward the CU Denver Business School within two years.
“Jake Jabs is a highly accomplished and well-regarded businessman who has done a considerable amount for Colorado and the Denver community,” CU President Bruce Benson said. “His contribution to the Business School will help CU Denver nurture the next generation of business leaders and deepen our connections with the Denver business community.”
Jabs has supported an entrepreneurship center at Montana State University in addition to numerous charities. He chose to make this transformative gift to CU Denver’s Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship, where he has guest-lectured on occasion, as part of his broader personal goals of celebrating entrepreneurial values, and of raising the bar to keep American university graduates competitive in a global marketplace.
“What motivated me to get more involved with CU, frankly, is Madhavan Parthasarathy, said Jabs, referring to the center’s director, a CU Denver associate professor of marketing. “We think a lot alike. We both come from humble beginnings. We believe in living below our means. We have quite a bit in common, in terms of our philosophy of life.”
Parthasarathy, who has known Jabs for seven years, thinks the gift’s most immediate and visible impact will be on the annual Business Plan Competition; the 2013 competition will culminate June 18. “The goal is to get as many students involved as possible, whether within the Business School, or in engineering, music, or other fields,” Parthasarathy said. “Next year, the business plan competition will be open to a much broader range of schools, which will give our center a real regional impact.
Until the last 30 years, few American universities had formal entrepreneurship programs. Since the 1980s, there has been increased prevalence and interest in entrepreneurship education, responding to the notion that in a highly competitive landscape, the launch of new businesses (and innovation of existing ones) requires more than just vision. Entrepreneurship also requires fluency with business planning, financing, regulation, and other systemic factors that are taught and nurtured in an academic setting, in conjunction with exposure to start-up companies, family businesses, and small business operations.
CU Denver launched its entrepreneurship center in 1996 with an initial gift by Richard H. and Pamela S. Bard. In the 17 years since, more than 2,500 CU Denver students have participated in programs including more than a dozen courses, the business plan competition, speaker series, and a business incubator among other activities. Several growing Colorado businesses got their start thanks to this center, including Elevated Third, Viktorian Guitars, and Nokero.
“Jake Jabs’ story and vision will inspire many future entrepreneurs at the Center,” Richard Bard said. “Pam and I feel honored to have launched this entrepreneurship program for CU Denver, and we know it has had a positive impact for both the students and the state in transforming ideas into economic results.”
Jake Jabs is an appropriate namesake for an entrepreneurship center in the heart of the Rocky Mountain region. Jabs was born one of nine children in an immigrant family in a small, hardscrabble Montana ranch town, and through military service and early business experiences operating a music store, he developed an ethic of hard work and a respect for the start-up spirit.
From the vestiges of a defunct furniture business, Jabs started American Furniture Warehouse in 1975. Throughout 38 years of sustained business growth, Jabs has become a recognized icon throughout Colorado, sometimes appearing in advertisements with a live tiger on his lap. Today, American Furniture Warehouse has 12 Colorado stores, $ 350 million in annual sales, and plans for out-of-state expansion.
The Business School at the University of Colorado Denver is the largest graduate school of business in the Rocky Mountain region. The Business School educates more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students who come from around the world to study in one of its 12 degree tracks and industry-focused programs such as Entrepreneurship, Commodities, Health Administration, Risk Management and Insurance, and Global Energy Management. The newly remodeled building supports the school’s collaborative culture, embodies its commitment to environmental sustainability, and facilitates partnerships with industry and the community.
Jabs’s gift is one of more than 275,000 gifts made during Creating Futures, a $ 1.5 billion fundraising campaign to enhance University of Colorado education, research, outreach, and health programs benefiting citizens throughout and beyond Colorado. Visit cufund.org for more information.
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Ninth Annual Spelman College Leadership Conference Examines Wealth Building, Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy
ATLANTA (PRWEB) March 06, 2013
For the ninth year, Spelman College will host its annual Leadership and Women of Color Conference featuring actress/entrepreneur Nicole Ari Parker and famed crisis communications expert/author Judy Smith — the real-life inspiration for ABC’s hit series “Scandal” — as two of its honorees and keynote speakers. The two-day event will be held at the Georgia International Convention Center, May 15 -16, 2013.
Convened by Jane E. Smith, Ed.D., executive director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement at Spelman, the conference will feature notable thought leaders and industry influencers engaging attendees from business, public policy, and education in detailed discussions centered on the theme, “Strategic Leadership: Building Wealth, Entrepreneurship and Paying It Forward.” This must-attend event for women and men in both the corporate and non-profit sectors will provide information and tools to help 21st century women of color strategically focus on building wealth, creating businesses and using both to make important, sustainable contributions to their communities.
“During the conference, attendees will learn from and pay tribute to corporate and community power brokers,” said Dr. Smith. “We are bringing forth those individuals whose commitment and leadership are making a difference in work places, communities and the health and wealth of women of color.”
Through keynote speeches, panel discussions and “conversations” with Spelman President Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., attendees will gain unique insight and leave with practical solutions to help them:
Incorporate the cornerstones of wealth building
Blaze a trail for others through philanthropic endeavors
Understand the impact of health on wealth
Leverage the power of the media to grow wealth
Held on the first night of the conference, the Legacy of Leadership Awards Dinner is an elegant evening of memorable entertainment, outstanding speakers and inspiring stories of leadership. This year, remarkable women who exemplify strategic leadership and embrace the importance of not only building successful careers, but also understanding the power of giving back, are being honored. Among the honorees are Ari Parker and Smith, as well as other local and national leaders in various fields.
The Ninth Annual Spelman College Leadership and Women of Color Conference will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at the Georgia International Convention Center. For more details and to register, visit http://www.spelmanwomenofcolorconf.com. Join the discussion and share your thoughts on this year’s theme on Facebook and Twitter, #SpelmanWOCC.
About Spelman College
Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a highly selective, liberal arts college widely recognized as the global leader in the education of women of African descent. Located in Atlanta, Ga., the college’s picturesque campus is home to 2,100 students. Outstanding alumnae include Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman; Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer; JPMorgan Chase Foundation President Kimberly Davis; former acting Surgeon General and Spelman’s first alumna President Audrey Forbes Manley; Harvard College Dean Evelyn Hammonds; author Pearl Cleage; and actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson. For more information, visit http://www.spelman.edu.
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Related Entrepreneurship Press Releases
Can an at-risk teenage girl launch a successful soda company? She can if she’s enrolled in a program by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) designed to help young people improve their academic, business and technological skills through entrepreneurship education. Follow the story of one young woman and hear why some say entrepreneurship education is “the civil rights issue of our time.” Originally aired January 2007.
Silicon Valley-Based University ITU to Sponsor the 2012 Symposium of Ideas; an Event Presented by Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2012
ITU (International Technological University), a graduate university based in Silicon Valley, will be sponsoring the 2012 Symposium of Ideas presented by Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation on Friday, May 11, 2012. The Event will be hosted at the Brocade Amphitheatre in San Jose from 6pm – 9pm. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $ 5 and it is expected that 120 attendees will be present. The event is open to the public.
The Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation sponsors entrepreneurial projects for students of inner-city schools which provide students with hands-on experience developing product-based businesses that solve a social or economic problem. Students this year were challenged to develop their product solutions with a green or clean technology.
During the 2012 Symposium of Ideas, students will present their final projects to a panel of judges, including:
Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource
Amie Gray of Data Key Consulting
Paul Whitney of Data Direct Networks
Ian MacDonald of Infinera Corporation
Kevin Stizes, Co-Founder and COO of Moonblink Communications
And Darlene Tennes, Founder of CassQ.
Students will be competing for the opportunity to win scholarships as well as coveted internships with Silicon Valley Green and Biotechnology Firms. Three of those internships will be with Silicon Valley based graduate university, ITU.
“I have been a guest speaker at ITU on prior occasions,” said Angele Jean Thomas, Founder of Infuse Entrepreneurship Foundation. “By offering internships to our high school students, students can witness firsthand, through ITU’s global business model, how they can create their very own companies.”
As a part of their commitment to innovative educational solutions, ITU supports entrepreneurial students in bringing their ideas and technologies to market. An in-house patent and ownership policy and process framework and leading industrial expertise helps students develop their research, patent their innovations, and build a successful business model.
About ITU
With seven strong departments providing high quality academic and practical training, ITU offers distinctive graduate level certificates, Master’s, and doctorate level programs in electrical engineering, computer/software engineering, engineering management, international business, interdisciplinary sciences, and digital arts. ITU degree programs aim to educate competent engineers, managers and administrators with a deep understanding of professional ethics, intellectual property law, environmental protection and other contemporary issues.
ITU has been granted candidacy status by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and is also recognized by the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE),. WASC Candidacy status places ITU among the recognized list of institutions on the U.S. Department of Education’s database of recognized institutions of higher learning and the Council for Higher Education’s Listing of Accredited and Candidate Institutions (CHEA).
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