(April 18, 2019) The Burgess New Venture Challenge (BNVC), an early-stage pitch competition bringing together Michigan State University student entrepreneurs and business leaders from across Michigan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, announces the winners of its first annual contest. Last evening, fifteen Michigan State University student startups pitched their ideas to a panel of expert judges, competing for scholarship prizes totaling over $40k in scholarship funding.
Tag: Innovation
Innovation is a Spartan State of Mind Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(MSU Today, November 27, 2017) For Michigan State University Spartans, entrepreneurship is more than a skill or discipline—it’s a mindset. It’s a way of thinking and working that opens doors, creates connections and accelerates innovation across disciplines.
Spartan innovators imagine a better world, then work to make it a reality. MSU supports them by connecting them to experienced business leaders and start-up funding opportunities and by cultivating university-wide entrepreneurship programs and community collaborations.
MSU Junior Wins Grand Prize at Entrepreneurship Competition Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(MSU Today, March 3, 2017) MSU junior Hew Hamilton won the $1,000 grand prize at February’s Hatching event, a monthly pitch competition that gives entrepreneurs the chance to share new ideas.
$4.5 MILLION GIFT FROM ALUMNUS ROBERT BURGESS SUPPORTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT MSU Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Alan Pinon, msutoday.msu.com, July, 13, 2016) Michigan State University has announced a $4.5 million gift to the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Eli Broad College of Business from alumnus Robert “Bob” K. Burgess, an accomplished business leader and longtime university advisor.
Entrepreneurship is Now Campus Wide at MSU Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(globalEDGE Business Beat, michiganbusinessnetwork.com, June 2, 2016) Hosted by Tomas Hult, this interview segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat focuses the new campus wide entrepreneurship program at Michigan State University.
Don’t Get Down — Get Busy Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Howard Tullman, Inc.com, April 26, 2016) If you running a startup you are going to hit a wall or screw up big time at some point. It goes with the territory. What doesn’t is letting yourself be stopped by it. Adversity doesn’t need any help. There are things you can do to right the ship– and the first is to right yourself.
Testing the Waters: Broad Students Swim with Shark Tank Judges Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Caroline Brooks, Eli Broad College of Business News, April 22, 2016) Pitching your best idea to two moguls whose combined net worth tops $150 million has a “sink or swim” feeling to it – especially going into the pitch knowing that those two moguls have achieved stardom by sinking countless other great ideas in their hit TV show, “Shark Tank.”
