Local Universities are Helping Student Entrepreneurs

This is an interesting article about a law student who is also en entrepreneur. He is pursuing a law degree not so that he can practice law, rather, because he believes it will help him as an entrepreneur. Soon after arriving on campus, he realized that there isn’t a grocery store within walking distance of his campus and convenience store prices are too high. He rented space in a nearby location, stocked up on the most popular items that students often buy, and opened up shop. His school, Marquette University, gave him a check for $10,000 from Marquette’s Enterprise Seed Fund, a pool of seed money administered by Marquette and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Marquette is just one of several institutions included in I-CORPS sites around the country use federal funding to accelerate the commercialization of research ideas developed on campus. The article highlights the fact that schools are beginning to realize how important this sort of entrepreneurial support is, and they are creating programs to help their students succeed in developing real-life businesses outside of the classroom.

https://www.biztimes.com/2017/magazines/biztimes-milwaukee/current-issue/local-universities-are-helping-student-entrepreneurs/

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