Articles tagged with: Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
2007 New Venture Challenge showcases the next generation of socially conscious entrepreneurs.
All entrepreneurs dream of turning their business plans into viable, profitable businesses. Once again this year, the college’s New Venture Challenge business plan competition is helping them transform these dreams into reality.
Hosted by the Eugenio …
From planned behavior to drafting a business plan: new book balances the theoretical and the practical.
Alan L. Carsrud
Somewhere between an erudite article, a standard textbook, and a glib “How-To” without research to back up its points, there ought to be a resource that provides easy-to-read, yet well-substantiated information on …
Entrepreneurship Week USA comes and goes, but its impact remains.
Bruce Welch (left), graduate student assistant in the Pino Center, at Entrepreneurship Week USA Fair
When Entrepreneurship Week USA took place across the country from February 24-March 3, 2007, the Eugenio Pino and Family Global …
2007 Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Inductees will be honored on May 16th.
Margarita M. Gonzalez
The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame will be celebrating its 8th annual Luncheon and Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at Parrot Jungle Island. The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame inductees were selected …
Forum explores what it takes to keep a business “all in the family.”
Alan L. Carsrud
Starting a business together can be an equally daunting and enriching experience for any family. Keeping that business successful from generation to generation often brings a whole new set of challenges and rewards.
More …
2007 New Venture Challenge welcomes university alumni into the competition.
2005 undergraduate winner Mike Anestor of Infinity Dance Project with 2006 undergraduate winners, Phoenix Tutoring and Mentoring’s team members William Hatcher, Mike Sylvestre, Steven Benyard; 2005 graduate winner Hein Nguyen of Intelligent …
Success blossoms as business plan for ergonomic tools wins first statewide competition.
The presentations were impressive and the competition was keen at the first annual Florida Collegiate Business Plan Competition held October 27 and 28, 2006, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Alexis Nogueras (MBA ’06)
But …
New scholarship endowment sparks the entrepreneurial spirit.
Margarita Gonzalez
Student and entrepreneur Margarita Gonzalez rarely follows the traditional path.
Already the chief financial officer of AccuBANKER, the company she and her husband founded in Miami in 1981, Gonzalez decided to pursue her Bachelor …
New Venture Challenge sets young entrepreneurs on the path to success.
2005 undergraduate winner Mike Anestor of Infinity Dance Project with 2006 undergraduate winners, Phoenix Tutoring and Mentoring’s team members William Hatcher, Mike Sylvestre, Steven Benyard; 2005 graduate winner Hein Nguyen of Intelligent …
New Farmer-to-Farmer partnership plants seeds of opportunity in Central America.
Agricultural businesses and farming organizations in Central America may soon begin reaping the benefits of U.S.-developed agricultural technology thanks to a new partnership between the John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) Program, funded by the U.S. Agency …
Expert sheds light on important, but rare, aspect of entrepreneurship.
Erkko Autio, director of the HEC Institut Stratège in Lausanne, Switzerland
High-growth entrepreneurial firms represent a small minority of all new businesses, yet they create the bulk of new jobs. Despite their significance, though, it isn’t …
Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center captures position on “Top Ten” list.
Fortune Small Business has recognized the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center as one of the ten “cool” universities in the country for entrepreneurial programs and research. The university joined schools liked Harvard …
First Albert Haar Award honors owners of The Keyes Company.
Amid warm memories captured in “Through the Years,” a slide presentation showing members of the Pappas family—owners of The Keyes Company—patriarch Theodore J. Pappas (Ted) Pappas, and his sons, Mike and Tim, who now control …
Demonstration shows audience how to get pitch right.
When Albert Santalo (EMBA ’97) presented his business pitch recently, it wasn’t the first time. In fact, it was the 75th.
Founder, president, and chief executive officer of Avisena, Santalo had the idea of once again …
