How did Simon Entrepreneurs come about?  In true entrepreneurial fashion: opportunity was found and it was seized, how else?  In more detail, it was the coming together of desire and opportunity:

A desire to augment work experience with a leading business school education to create new possibilities for innovation and venture launching

• A strong, yet underutilized climate for entrepreneurship in Rochester
• Incubators
• Investors
• Sources of emerging technology – top academic/research facilities
• Community projects
• Large and small corporations in need of entrepreneurial innovation and management
• A desire to engage a student body that is heavily weighted towards traditional corporate roles
• Explore corporate entrepreneurship (intrapraneurship)
• Generate accomplishment in new career directions
• Pursue that killer idea stuck in the back of his/her mind
• A desire to contribute to the building of a top entrepreneurship program and to strengthen the school’s recruiting efforts

Want to gain entrepreneurial experience and a chance to win $10,000?

Check out the Mark Ain Business Model Workshop Series & Competition