Over the past four years, scores of successful alumni entrepreneurs have shared their knowledge and experience with °Δ²ΚΏͺ½± students who aspire to start their own businesses or not-for-profit organizations. One Saturday a month, alumni and students have worked side by side, teaching and learning about how to take an idea to reality β from how to find customers or venture capital, to how to build an effective team, manage risk, or incorporate. It would be nearly impossible to calculate the value of the advice.
Now, a new , offered by , captures the wisdom and advice from some of the mentors, and shares it beyond the TIA community. Longer, lecture-style videos like this one, called featuring Bob Gold β80 Pβ15, president and CEO of Ridgewood Capital, will also be shared online.
βEntrepreneurship is embedded in °Δ²ΚΏͺ½±βs DNA,β Andy Greenfield β74 Pβ12 has said. He co-founded TIA with Gold and Wills Hapworth β07, president of DarkHorse Investors. The program has grown steadily each year, engaging more and more alumni and resulting in .
At °Δ²ΚΏͺ½±βs second Entrepreneur Weekend in April 2013, Greenfield served as emcee at a Ted-style presentation event where five °Δ²ΚΏͺ½± entrepreneurs shared their stories. Their presentations are also online.
The TIA Saturday program resumes on September 7. Hereβs how to .