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As of April 1st, we have closed Startup University to new submissions while we review and report back on the results. We will be contacting all of those who registered to vote on ideas, submitted ideas or made comments with the results of this project. You can also check back after April 15th or subscribe to the SBA’s blog for updates.
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Last year the Small Business Administration held a series of regional roundtables with accelerators and universities, and one of the major takeaways was that universities could use a dedicated forum to discuss best practices and build new connections between academia and startup entrepreneurs.

Based off this feedback, the SBA and Department of Commerce created Startup University as a forum for educators and entrepreneurs like you to vote, comment, add provide feedback, but we need your help!

  • Use our forum bellow and tell us what you are seeing:
  • Vote: Which initiatives stand out to you? Vote on your top 5 success stories and tell us if these programs should be replicated elsewhere.
  • Add Your Own– How you have promoted innovation and entrepreneurship on campus and in the community? What can be done to replicate your success, or learn from past mistakes?
  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  • My feedback

82 results found

  1. Iowa Medical Innovation Group (IMIG)

    The University of Iowa's IMIG program provides interdisciplinary student teams from the colleges of engineering, medicine, law and business the opportunity to collaborate with top faculty and industry experts to innovate and advance new medical devices from conception to commercialization.

    315 votes
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  2. Student Startup Inc.

    We’re building a cross-campus entrepreneurship community at MSU Denver to help students startup.

    What we do for new for new ventures:

    Coach ventures through the process of ideation and development.
    Connect ventures with resources they can use.
    Creation of investment-ready student ventures culminating in Demo Day

    MSU Denver attracts students who are from all over the globe who are geared towards advancing their professional careers, many of them have an entrepreneurial mindset that drives them to understand how to create sustainable businesses. It was this entrepreneurial spirit that led to the initial creation of Student Startup.

    Developed by a MSU…

    7 votes
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  3. University of Akron Research Foundation

    The University of Akron Research Foundation (UARF) was established for the purpose of benefiting the regional community via sharing and reallocation of regional assets. UARF has led the greater university community in providing a full range of innovation support services including the development of capital, technology and human resources, as well as consolidating and providing facilities and equipment in support of innovation. UARF, in collaboration with the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, hosts an NSF sponsored i6 Proof of Concept Center.

    2 votes
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  4. Middlebury College - Middlebury Entrepreneurs

    The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) has created an undergraduate course based on Steve Blank's Customer Development class at Stanford. Taught at Middlebury College, students begin by reading "The Lean Startup," and before the first class students answer the following questions:

    "Who is your customer? What problem are you solving? How much of a pain it is? What is your solution?"

    Customer focus, combined with measures that force students to test their products with real people, makes for a class that produces confident and receptive entrepreneurs.

    If you'd like to read more about the course, shoot VCET an email…

    2 votes
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  5. Butler Venture Accelerator Program at Babson College

    Outside the classroom, Babson students live entrepreneurship through the comprehensive John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator Program which is the result of faculty and staff working together to define a framework that provides access to resources for student and alumni entrepreneurs to move their business ideas forward. The resources available through the program include workshops on a wide range of topic areas, workspace and advising/mentoring. Each level has one or more faculty advisors who are experienced entrepreneurs. These faculty teach one or more entrepreneurship courses at Babson, so the advice they provide is consistent with the content delivered…

    893 votes
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  6. Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization

    What is an army’s strategic plan without its infantry to implement it? It is but an idea on a piece of paper, with no tangible results; no achievements. The infiltration and reconnaissance efforts of the infantry are a contribution to a greater purpose: advancement and long-term success. The Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization (LIINC) program at West Virginia University executes WVU’s 2020 Strategic Plan in the trenches, actively facilitating increased and improved collaboration between WVU faculty researchers, graduate students and the private sector marketplace. LIINC has engaged university faculty and administrators, established corporate relationships, provided new support for research faculty,…

    901 votes
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  7. Increasing the Pipeline of Women in Entrepreneurship: Hass/UC Berkley, George Washington and Syracuse.

    Developed in 2011 by Springworks and piloted at Haas/UC Berkeley, WE-Generation (WE-Gen) is a growing community of next generation women interested in entrepreneurship who actively work together to learn, support, and inspire.

    Using a campus based chapter model, participating students develop a charter for how they are organized that best fits their interests and Universities. The leaders of each University's WE Gen chapter, in coordination with their members, create and run programs that will help their entrepreneurial aspirations.

    Each chapter is meant to not only be a beacon for on campus women entrepreneurs but to provide them with a voice…

    226 votes
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  8. LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, Long Island City (Queens) NY, Business Services "en suite"

    Provides business advisement and support services "en suite" - under one umbrella creating an ecosystem to support small businesses. Small Business owners can access support from one program to another depending on their needs and where they are in their business; education and training, government procurement assistance and access to capital across five core business programs: a Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), a Small Business Transportation Resource Center (SBTRC) and a business design incubator NYDesigns (3D printing available on site). Bundling all these services on a community college campus has…

    112 votes
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  9. Growing Existing Small Business

    Small business owners entrepreneurs are having difficulty in growing their businesses. I suggest a collaboration between Industry, Government and Universities to develop measurable programs with accountability in mind that can benefit all parties. Since everyone is saying small business is the engine of our economy, why not help them.

    105 votes
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  10. Texas State’s RampCorp

    Texas State’s RampCorp program works to improve economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs in Texas. Women entrepreneurs receive coaching from experienced investors, entrepreneurs, inventors, and business leaders to learn about resources and opportunities. The RampCorp program includes both skills and knowledge training to provide guidance in starting, growing, and funding scalable companies.

    340 votes
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  11. Missouri KC- Whiteboard to Boardroom

    Missouri KC- Whiteboard to Boardroom
    This bi-state (Missouri and Kansas) partnership of regional colleges, universities, community colleges, local businesses, and nonprofits seeks to discover and develop technology by pulling it out of the institutions and actively moving it along the development pathway. Through this program, students, faculty, and local community work to establish new business ventures, licensing opportunities, create jobs, and spur economic development through mentoring, job training, hands on learning opportunities, and access to capital funds. Through the collaborative effort, partnerships are expanded to form and encourage technology growth and business plan development for the local economy.

    420 votes
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  12. Students for Startups

    Vision
    Contribute to sustainable net job growth by lowering the barriers to connecting burgeoning businesses with local talent and free support, enhancing their mutual strength with improved resources.

    Value
    Strengthening workforce development, job creation and placement creates healthier communities. Removing barriers to resources for startups and micro businesses will help them create and sustain jobs. Giving students more opportunities to work and train with startups and micros in diverse industries will better prepare our workforce. Furthering research will improve sustainable net job creation strategies. Success will be measured by participation rates, participant feedback, and direct measurement of participant job creation…

    48 votes
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  13. Teach courses in how to sell so grads, startups and entrepreneurs can successfully acquire paying customers

    Colleges do not teach the very pragmatic skill universally needed - how to sell. Why not?

    That's not marketing BTW, that's going out and knowing how to use the sales process to acquire paying customers B2B, B2C. And no, retail is not the selling I am referring to. Its also knowing How to Acquire Paying Customers online w/o competition via target audience specific social media groups & discussions.

    Why has this critical business skill been ignored in college offerings? Enough theory and analysis, lets teach folks how to go out and grow business so they can survive and thrive. For…

    68 votes
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  14. Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities

    The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) offers cutting edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with disabilities resulting from their service to our country. EBV was founded at Syracuse University in 2007.

    45 votes
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  15. Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs

    The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs houses the TVL Accelerator which partners graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin studying Business, Law, Engineering and the Sciences with start-ups to solve fundamental business problems.

    In three years, the TVL Accelerator has worked with 53 companies and 144 students. Our companies have raised over $45 million and two out of three students go on to either found or work at a start-up.

    This model could likely be duplicated at other major universities to similar effect

    77 votes
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  16. Become Globally Competitive: Take a Geographically Unbound Approach to Commercialization

    Over the last decade, Larta has developed and deployed a start-up entrepreneurial education and assistance platform across the globe. This “Network-Centric” approach to enterprise development takes a geographically unbound approach that enhances the global competitiveness of start-ups.

    Such an approach aggregates the best global resources drawn from domain and functional experts and professionals working in marketing, branding, research, law and other relevant areas. These resources are tailored to the unique needs of individual innovators, and are served up “just in time”, truly aligned with the breakneck pace of commerce courtesy of the Web, the demand for externally-developed innovations and the…

    57 votes
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  17. Student Venture Funds: Stanford Start-X, North Dakota Venture Group, University of Akron

    The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation fosters hands on learning through Mueller Entrepreneur Internships (funding students to start a venture) and the Dakota Venture Group, the nation's first fully student run venture fund where the students need to source deals, screen, conduct due diligence, negotiate investment terms, syndicated with angel funds and other investors, close deals, manage portfolio, and arrange for exits. They work closely with nine area angel funds. They also invest in student ventures. More than 100 students have participated so far in this vibrant entrepreneur and angel investor ecosystem.

    Student Venture Fund at The University…

    32 votes
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  18. Student Start - Connecting Student Entrepreneurs with Alumni Donors (http://uvmstart.org)

    The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) has made a Kickstarter for college students called Student Start. Student Start is a packaged crowdfunding platform used by universities and colleges to empower student entrepreneurs. From advice and connections, to mentoring and money, Student Start empowers entrepreneurship teams by providing a page that displays project videos to alumni of that university. It starts with a great idea, a student team, and a plan.

    Feel free to visit our pilot with the University of Vermont (http://uvmstart.org)

    22 votes
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  19. VentureBoard: What's Stopping You? (Networking Resources)

    VentureBoard.co is an online platform to connect students on a given campus interested in starting a company. It provides tools to find students and resources as well as an all encompassing platform to organize your venture and connect with advisors.

    16 votes
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  20. Syracuse University: Raymond von Dran IDEA Sandbox & Entrepreneurship Accelerator

    The RvD IDEA at Syracuse University supports student entrepreneurs to start new ventures that provide economic growth. It includes courses and an academic minor at Syracuse University, the RvD IDEA Student Sandbox incubator in partnership with the Syracuse Technology Garden, the RvD IDEA Awards to seed student ventures, and the RvD IDEA student connectors which organize activities and events for student entrepreneurs.

    32 votes
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Startup-U is nationwide initiative of 150+ colleges and universities committed to promoting entrepreneurship. On this website you can:

(1) share the best practices your university uses to promote entrepreneurship on campus
(2) share pro-innovation ideas you'd like universities to implement

Feel free to submit ideas, comment and vote for the ideas you like!


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