Of all new jobs created in America, 85 percent come from young, small companies. Will you have to rely on others to create your job, or will you learn how to create jobs from your own abilities, knowledge and innovation?

Entrepreneurial Forum

Thursday, April 12th, 2012, the Entrepreneurial Society student organization hosts the first CNS Entrepreneurial Forum. The one day Forum includes a 3-4 member panel discussion from 2:00-3:30pm to be held in Welch Hall 2.224. The panel will discuss their experiences of becoming an entrepreneur and the challenges and rewards of starting their own business. The audience will be predominately undergraduate students from the College of Natural Sciences, but students from other colleges are invited as well. From 1:00-4:30 pm, booths sponsored by on-campus entrepreneurial student organizations and/or related programs, as well as outside organizations will be in Welch Hall providing information on a variety of entrepreneurial opportunities. The one-day Forum concludes with a 5:45pm talk by John Paul DeJoria in the LBJ Auditorium. Parking provided.

Please see Booth Sponsorship Opportunity and Registration if your organization is interested in sponsoring a booth at the CNS Entrepreneurial Forum.

Cool Readings

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The second economy: Digitization is creating a second economy that's vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.

Reading material for the lecture: National Commission on Entrepreneurship-Federal Policy and the Entrepreneurial Economy, 1958-1998

On Campus

ERI - The Entrepreneurial Research Initiative

1 Semester Start Up

Austin Technology Incubator

3 Day Start Up

Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-grad school Internship Program

Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium

Founders Fund Bus Tour Oct 17-18 at UT (ATT Center)

Student Entrepreneur Acceleration and Launch (SEAL) program-  a program that gives entrepreneur groups connected to the UT community a chance to figure out what milestones need to be reached for their business plans to succeed

University Entrepreneur's Association – The University Entrepreneur's Association brings students interested in entrepreneurship together to share experiences and ideas. We also host corporate speakers to share their knowledge on entrepreneurship.

Technology Entrepreneurship Society

Texas Venture Labs

Idea2Product (I2P®)

UT Student Entrepreneurs

Sarah Vela's Help Attack! Read more.

Nick Matzorkis and the  SUP ATX company. Read more.

Parker Mace and Livney+Partners. Read more.

Off Campus

Policy Dialog on Entrepreneurship

Inventor's Digest Magazine

Conferences on Entrepreneurship

RISE University Conference- A free one-day conference for university entrepreneurs of all types and stages, providing a forum where students can exchange ideas that inspire the entrepreneurial spirit.

Stanford Technology Ventures' Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education

Past Events

College of Natural Sciences
Distinguished Lecture 2011

"Mining the Human Mind: Entrepreneurship and the Knowledge Society"

With Dr. Skip Porter, Associate Dean for Innovation and Science Enterprise.

• October 2, 2011, Sunday, 5-7 pm - UTC 2.112A. Lecture required for all TIP, BSP students.
• October 9, 2011, Sunday, 5-7 pm - WEL 2.224. Lecture required for all Dean's Scholars, Health Science Honors, FRI and Women in Natural Sciences students.
• In this college lecture, we will review and discuss the creation of wealth in a knowledge based society and how to think and act entrepreneurally with examples from those who have made it happen. We'll review how nations' economies have been driven by mining the sea and the land, and now how the mind will be given prominence. A focus on the role science has played in the Wealth of Nations will be given including the relative impacts of policies and actions in the government, university and industry sectors. Student interaction and discussion is encouraged.