Podcast #15 - Peter Burns and the Institute for Entrepreneurship
Peter Burns, the Founder of the Institute for Entrepreneurship, joins us today to share his story. Peter has launched numerous initiatives in Arizona having the first ever college-accredited program on entrepreneurship. He left our interview early to meet with Governor Napolitano to discuss his comprehensive program and what it means for Arizona. In his interview Peter announces a new VC fund for entrepreneurs in that should make any start-up in Arizona giddy- we’ll let you hear that announcement from his mouth. If you happen to be in Tempe this evening, stop by Mill Ave for Club Entrepreneur. The authors of StartupNation.com are presenting and if it’s anything like the last event, it should draw upwards of 200 people.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
[…] On the latest Grid7 Entrepreneurship Podcast, Peter Burns founder of the Institute for Entrepreneurship discusses his initiative aimed at rolling out university programs for Entrepreneurship across the country. As part of this he talks about the University Entrepreneurs fund. This fund was first created last year as a $1 million venture capital fund for student entrepreneurs. Now Peter is looking to push it to $250 million and take it to a national level. Students from the Entrepreneurship program at any of the universities where the Institute for Entrepreneurship provides their program are eligible. From those programs, the best prospects can receive seed funding to get their projects off the ground. If I were still a student I’d be pretty damn excited about this program. […]
April 25th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
[…] Erika Feinberg, Founder and CEO of Active Forever joins us to share some of her incredible promotional strategies. Erika has a knack for what Peter Burns calls “1 + 1 = infinity” thinking. She has crafted numerous marketing strategies in which she examines a market, sets her own needs aside and orchestrates a promotion between other participants in the space effectively getting them to subsidize her own promotion (which is absolutely genius). Many thanks to Erika for sharing and we wish her luck in her roll-out of her new fulfillment initiative. Catch Erika speaking at the AZ Entrepreneurship Conference in November. Venturecast #17 with Erika Feinberg [44:23m]: Play in Popup | Download […]