Launch
The entrepreneurship major allows us to explore our options, take advantage of our creativity and pursue our dreams.–Sami Daraby BBA '05 |
We have had many great success stories from students launching businesses. Students have launched software companies, communications companies, Web-based software service ventures, and service companies with high-tech solutions in the energy industry.
Students who graduate from our program generally start their entrepreneurial journey on these paths: new ventures, joining a start-up, working for a small or family business with a high growth potential, joining a consulting firm, joining a medium or large company and working in business development, industry analysis, consulting, product development, sales, marketing, customer service, or operations. Our goal is to connect established entrepreneurs and business angels with the students who have intelligence, integrity and drive.
Although many students hope to start their own company someday, in the interim, they are fantastic employees for growth companies. Companies are looking for employees who can execute, gather pertinent information and make decisions, and who can plan and manage resources – in other words, entrepreneurs. Companies full of bureaucrats and yes-men collapse under the crushing weight of it's not my job and fail due to thinking there is light at the end of the tunnel –when it' really a train.