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Mid Atlantic Diamond Ventures Late Spring Venture Forum

Join us at Temple University's spectacular new $84 million business school building, Alter Hall, for the next Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures venture forum.  This special forum features early-stage entrepreneurial firms from the Mid-Atlantic region as well as Israeli companies seeking to establish U.S. operations.   Some are clients of the Fox School of Business' MBA consulting practicum in conjunction with Ben Gurion University.  Each firm is screened through an application process and coached through intensive "scrub sessions."  Companies presenting at Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures have proven business models; some are post-revenue and have well thought-out strategies to rapidly expand their businesses.

Friday, June 5
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alter Hall, Fox School of Business
Undergraduate Commons (1st Floor)
Montgomery Avenue and 13th Street
Temple University Main Campus

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Where are the Women Entrepreneurs?

An Open Forum on What's Holding Us Back

Only 10% of the companies in the Philly 100 are headed by women, and not one in the top 25.  And only three companies in the Fortune 1000 were founded or co-founded by women.  Join us as female entrepreneurs, investors, psychologists and more discuss -- with as little regard for political correctness as possible -- what might be behind these disturbing facts.  Touch points include access to capital, aversion to risk, sociocultural norms and pressures, inadequate mentoring and more. Break out discussions give you the opportunity to vent, brainstorm and strategize on how to unleash the power & potential of women entrepreneurs!

Wednesday, May 6
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast & Networking
8:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Panel & Break-Out Discussions
Alter Hall, Fox School of Business
Undergraduate Commons (1st Floor)
Montgomery Avenue and 13th Street
Temple University Main Campus

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2009 Be Your Own Boss Bowl Concludes - Pitbull Development Takes Grand Prize of Over $50,000 in Cash, Microsoft Products, Professional Services and More

Eleven finalists pitched at The Be Your Own Boss Bowl, Temple's 11th annual business plan competition, on the afternoon of April 22 to a jam packed crowd at Alter Hall, new home of the Fox School of Business. Fourteen distinguished judges determined the following winners:

  • GRAND PRIZE - Shawn Bullard, CEO (alumni, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management) and Julian Baldwin, PhD (alumni, School of Pharmacy) for Pitbull Development, a privately owned boutique real estate development company specializing in contemporary living solutions for off-campus college students.
  • FIRST PLACE, GRADUATE STUDENT/ALUMNI/FACULTY/STAFF - David Ho, PhD, President and Chief Scientific Officer (Alumni, School of Medicine) for HeMemics Biotechnologies, a firm specializing in products and processes designed to extend the life of perishable reagents, diagnostics and therapeutics used in health care and research.
  • FIRST PLACE, UNDERGRADUATE - Kelley Grimm, CEO (Entrepreneurship/Marketing, Fox School of Business) and James Salisbury, CFO/COO (Entrepreneurship, Fox School of Business) for Fried Anything, a specialty restaurant serving a variety of customizable unique fried foods (fried Twinkies, Oreos, Candy Bars and more) in an upbeat atmosphere.
  • SECOND PLACE, GRADUATE STUDENT/ALUMNI/FACULTY/STAFF - LaToya Winkfield, co-CEO (alumna, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management) and Sharana Worsley, co-CEO, MBA (Drexel University) for Mocha Passport, a niche online travel resource guide serving African American urban professionals combining user-generated content and social networking.
  • SECOND PLACE, UNDERGRADUATE - Lakshman Rajeswaran, CEO (Human Resources, Fox School of Business), Judith Martin, Director of Finance (Finance, Fox School of Business) and Amber Minotti, Director of Marketing (International Business, Fox School of Business) for One Home, a unique furniture company offering a Universal Furniture System which combines sleeping, living, storage and office furniture all into one modular unit.

The afternoon started with a Rapid Fire Delivery sponsored by Good Company Ventures in which all 11 finalists provided 30-second overviews of their businesses and value propositions. The judges awarded a $250 cash prize to Robert Yerkov, CEO (Entrepreneurship/Marketing, Fox School of Business) and Peter Kuhn II (Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts) for Campus Connections Advertising.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship congratulates all the winners and participants in the BYOBB, and thanks everyone involved in the program, especially sponsors, preliminary and finalist judges, senior executive mentors and Fox faculty.

IEI Concludes 2009 Entrepreneurship Fireside Chats: Successful Entrepreneurs Inspire Students Through Small Group, Free-Flow Dialog

Temple's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute recently concluded seven sessions of small group, interactive dialog with prominent entrepreneurs -- a new program for the organization. The "fireside chats" featured highly successful entrepreneurs engaging in passionate, informative conversations with small groups (25 - 35) of students on a wide range of topics.

Entrepreneurs featured included:

  • Nick Bayer - President and CEO of Saxby's Worldwide Coffee. A cross between old world "Mom and Pop" cofee houses and Starbucks, Saxby's is led by a 30-year old entrepreneur with plans to grow his business from 50 to 100 stores in 2009 via a franchising model. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Ned Moore - Co-Founder and CEO, Portico Systems. Portico System's innovative soltuions enable health plans to reduce administrative, medical and IT costs, and is a six-time "Philly 100" awardee for end-over-end growth. Moore was named Tech CEO of the Year at the 2009 Enterprise Awards (Eastern Technology Council). BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Donald McNeill - Founder and Chairman, McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds. "You've Been Sentenced", a board game for entertainment or educational use, has received multiple awards in the game business and is poised to become the next Cranium. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Jane Hoffer - Former President and CEO, Prescient Applied Intelligence (NASDAQ:PPID) Ms. Hoffer lead the evolution of the company into a premier provider and innovator of retailer-centric planning and collaboration solutions for the consumer products market, and guided the firm through a merger with viaLink, a provider of demand visibility and scan-based trading soltions to the retail supply chain. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Richard Bendis - President and CEO, Bendis Investment Group; Founder and Former CEO, Innovation Philadelphia. Benis served as Chairman, President and CEO of True Product ID, Inc., a global publicly traded anti-counterfeiting technology company (NASDAQ:TPID) headquartered in Philadelphia which he relocated to Beijing, China. Bendis also founded Innovation Philadelphia (IP), a public/private partnership dedicated to growing wealth and workforce in the region. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Brett Kingstone - Founded and Former CEO, Super Vision. Kinstone founded a fiber optics company in college which later because Super Vision, producing numerous fiber optic and LED lighting landmarks wordwide for Coca Cold, Pepsi, Universal Studios and Walt Disney. Super Vision has been honored as one of the Top 500 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the U.S. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.
  • Irwin Gross - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Premium Asset Management. Over the course of his career, Gross, a Temple alum, has been involved with founding, turning around, acquiring or building dozens of businesses, including International Mobile Machines, a pioneer in wireless communications. Now known as Interdigital Corporation, the firm has a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion. BIO and QUESTIONNAIRE.

 

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Temple University's 4th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference: Can Local, Healthy Food Transform Our Community?

Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Student Activity Center, Room 200
Click here for a map of campus, the event is located in buliding 49B

 

A look at local food businesses, systems, education,

entrepreneurship, and urban access with a FOOD EXPO

Keynote Speaker

Dickson Despommier, Ph. D
Vertical Farm Project

Panelists

George Cashmark, Sodexo
Ann Karlen, White Dog Cafe Foundation
Marilyn Anthony, PASA
Skip Wiener, Urban Tree Connection
Duane Perry, The Food Trust
Jill Fink, Mugshots CoffeeHouse
John Doyle, John & Kira's Chocolates
Jamie McKnight, Teens 4 Good
Dave Zelov, Weaver's Way Co-op
Mariana Chilton, PhD, Drexel University, Public Health

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Temple Again Ranked Tops in Entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur Magazine

2008 Top 25 Best Undergrad Schools for EntrepreneursFor the fifth straight year, Temple has been ranked among the nation’s best for entrepreneurship programs by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review.  Temple was ranked sixth for its undergraduate programs and 11th for its graduate programs in the magazine’s 6th annual “Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges.”  Temple improved its rankings slightly from the previous year. The rankings were released September 9, 2008.

Over 2,300 undergraduate and graduate schools were solicited via surveys by The Princeton Review, a leading provider of educational services.  The survey, comprehensive in scope, focused on information in three areas:  academics and requirements, students and faculty (including how many are entrepreneurs) and activities and programs occurring outside the classroom.

2008 Top 25 Best Grad Schools for EntrepreneursEntrepreneur magazine’s website, entrepreneur.com, highlighted several areas of Temple’s program including a focus on entrepreneurship interwoven with a mission for urban renewal and economic development; its Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures program – the Mid-Atlantic region’s only year ‘round venture forum program – which assists early stage technology and science companies in securing first or second rounds of angel funding; Temple’s Small Business Development Center; the University's lead role in BioLaunch 611+, a Pennsylvania Keystone Innovation Zone program; the Temple University Council on Entrepreneurship comprised of representatives from all 17 schools and colleges within the University; and several novel competitions focused on entrepreneurship.

In the ’07 – ’08 academic year, Temple was also the only college or university in the Philadelphia regional area ranked tops by three different ranking entities:  Fortune Small Business magazine, Entrepreneur magazine and U.S. News and World Report.

 

Temple University only area university ranked in entrepreneurship in the U.S. by three different ranking entities

This fall, Temple University was the only area university ranked among top entrepreneurship programs for undergraduates in the United States by three separate ranking entities: Fortune Small Business magazine, Entrepreneur magazine with the Princeton Review, and U.S. News & World Report. Temple’s graduate entrepreneurship programs also ranked high.

Temple University was ranked eighth for undergraduate programs and 12th for graduate programs by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review following a survey of more than 900 schools across the United States.

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