{"id":42197,"date":"2016-09-02T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=42197"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:02:47","slug":"wright-state-to-launch-the-entrepreneur-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/02\/wright-state-to-launch-the-entrepreneur-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State to launch The Entrepreneur Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jordan Roe, technology acceleration project manager for The Entrepreneurs Center, left, and Wright State graduate student Isaac Knapp are working together to launch The Entrepreneur Club at Wright State. (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

When Isaac Knapp was 12, he started what would grow into a four-year poultry business, raising and selling chickens. Today, the Wright State English graduate student heads up The Entrepreneur Club, a new student organization he hopes will attract students from all of the university\u2019s schools and colleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are particularly interested in getting students who are interested in entrepreneurship, but not just business and engineering students,\u201d said Knapp. \u201cI hope we see a big range of ideas \u2014 from high-tech inventions to dance studios to restaurants and many other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The club will be launched during a ceremony in the atrium of Russ Engineering on Thursday, Sept. 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. Featured speakers will include Wright State President David R. Hopkins and Scott Koorndyk, president of The Entrepreneurs Center, an organization that helps entrepreneurs establish startup businesses in the Dayton region. The event will include networking opportunities as well as free pizza and snacks.<\/p>\n

The Entrepreneurs Center has worked with Wright State to create The Entrepreneur Club.<\/p>\n

The club is free and open to any Wright State student. Members will be able to network, hear expert speakers, meet potential mentors, get business-model and commercialization training, learn how to fund a startup business, take part in competitions and network with the region\u2019s executives about potential jobs.<\/p>\n

Knapp said the club may be more helpful to students who haven\u2019t taken any business classes than those who have. Knapp, who is working on his master\u2019s degree in English literature<\/a>, is hoping to gain the knowledge to use his degree in an entrepreneurial way.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if your goal is not to start your own business out of college, that entrepreneurial vision is going to make you better at whatever you do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Knapp said the club will enable members to share ideas with each other and form collaborations and partnerships. He expects there to be a meeting or an event \u2014 such as a panel discussion with local entrepreneurs \u2014 once every few weeks and that members can be involved as much or as little as they choose.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall mission is to help drive more entrepreneurial initiatives and create more interest in startup businesses in the region,\u201d said Chris Wallace, executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Wright State\u2019s Raj Soin College of Business<\/a>. \u201cThat strengthens the economy and leads to more and better jobs as well as a higher standard of living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan Roe, technology acceleration project manager for The Entrepreneurs Center, said members of the club will gain access to resources at the center, including speakers, competitions and help with business plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make Dayton a more entrepreneurial community, it starts with entrepreneurial education,\u201d said Roe, who has a master\u2019s degree in entrepreneurship from Oklahoma State University. \u201cWhy not make Wright State a great entrepreneurial training ground? That feeds right back into our entrepreneurial ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2014, the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Wright State was founded by Joanne Li, dean of the Raj Soin College of Business, in order to give more experiential learning opportunities to Wright State students and provide more training to prepare graduates for working in the business world.<\/p>\n

One of the institute\u2019s key products is Business 4000, a course that provides students with projects that have the potential to be commercialized.<\/p>\n

The class works with technologies developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory and at the Wright State Research Institute<\/a>. WSRI created a website called The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to Dayton Tech & Startups<\/a>. The website is designed to be a one-stop shop for startups and entrepreneurial-related resources and news.<\/p>\n

For more information on The Entrepreneur Club, students are asked to visit the club\u2019s page on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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