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