Engage Engineering Entrepreneurship Students to Take Action

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Engage

Students

Spark

Action

“How do we fit entrepreneurial skills training into an already

packed engineering curriculum?”

“How do we spark intense desire in students to learn

entrepreneurship and engineering on their own in their

free time?”

My first business client at 16 years old…

Why would a 16 year old who has never read a book on his own before spend $500 on

books?

How can this mindset shift be replicated in your classrooms?

Action

Experiential

Business Plan

Starting a business is one of the best ways to become entrepreneurial

Customer Awareness

Business Acumen (Financial Analysis, Organizational Management, Economics

Social Values (Personal Character, Free Enterprise, Freedom/Liberty)

EntrepreneurialMindset

20% of students enrolled in these top entrepreneurship programs

have started a business.

13% of students who started are still in business.

Our GuidingPrinciples

Students really exploring entrepreneurship should start a business, just like others do an

internship to explore a job.

Share Untapped Opportunities

Sell the Power of Entrepreneurship

Show that They Can Do It

Create a Fun, Safe, Learning Environment for Action

Today’sAgenda

Share Untapped Opportunities

Acceleration ofTechnology

TechnologicalChanges

Item Now BeforeBiz Cards 250 free+ S&H Tens

Fax Number Free Hundreds

800 Number $9.95/month Tens

Domain Name $9.95/year $35/year

E-commerce Free Setup Hundreds

Web Hosting $4.99/mo $20/mo

SocialNetworking

Globalization

40,000+Providers

11.5M+ Sellers

2. Pre-SellingProduct/Svc

CreateTell us what you're collecting money for, how much you want to raise, and when you need it by.

PromoteEmbed the ChipIn Widget on your favorite Web site or create your own ChipIn page at yourname.chipin.com.

CollectLet your social network contribute via ChipIn's secure service & collect your funds via PayPal.

3. e-WholesaleTrip

Buy & sell goods/services internationally

Once students see the low prices, then they’ll connect the dots. From $2/hr.

www.elance.com/

40,000+ providers

www.alibaba.com

11,500,000+ sellers

Buy ServicesInternationally

Categories:

• Web & Programming• Design & Multimedia• Writing & Translation• Admin. Support• Sales & Marketing• Finance & Mgt.• Legal• Engineering & Mfg.

www.elance.com/

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Post for Free

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Search for providers

Categories

• Agriculture (128,773)• Apparel (553,236)• Automobile (364,498)• Business Services (48,209)• Chemicals (116,809)• Computer Hardware & Software (281,575)• Construction & Real Estate (760,793)• Electrical Equipment & Supplies (304,550)• Electronic Components & Supplies (62,251)• Energy (38,371)• Environment (11,879)• Excess Inventory (6,288)• Fashion Accessories (862,545)• Food & Beverage (84,516)• Furniture & Furnishings (615,370)• eneral Industrial Equipment (109,957)• General Mechanical Components (138,511)• Gifts & Crafts (622,910)• Hardware (321,190)• Health & Beauty (301,271)

• Home & Garden (1,089,735)• Home Appliances (279,168)• Lights & Lighting (211,695)• Luggage, Bags & Cases (352,204)• Mfg & Processing Machinery (164,857)• Measurement & Analysis Instruments (48,870)• Minerals, Metals & Materials (291,404)• Office Supplies (236,749)• Packaging & Paper (238,749)• Printing & Publishing (29,467)• Rubber & Plastics (152,293)• Security & Protection (108,241)• Service Equipment (134,518)• Shoes & Accessories (276,970)• Sports & Entertainment (497,346)• Telecommunications (440,546)• Textiles & Leather Products (262,315)• Timepieces, Jewelry, Eyewear (553,262)• Tools (141,121)• Toys (202,580)• Transportation (91,917)

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SellInternationally

Have a store front Create an e-commerce web site List on a site (eBay, amazon.com)

Advertise Google Adwords and Facebook Ads Search Engine Optimization Email Marketing Affiliate Program

Stretching Break

Sell the Power of Entrepreneurship

Money

Save on taxes capital gains expensing

Unlimited potential via ownership (no cap)

What percentage of millionairesare entrepreneurs?

How much doesthese guys make?

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How much doesthese guys make?

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How much doesthese guys make?

$1.0.0$1 0$1.0$1

How much doesthese guys make?

$1.0.0$1.0.0

How much doesthese guys make?

$15.9 Billion each as 9/17/08 according to Forbes.com

How much doesthese guys make?

Eship ChangesThe World!!!

Innovation

Job Growth

Philanthropy

Social Entrepreneurship (GREEN is HOT)

66% of job growth comes from small business.

Source: National Commission on Entrepreneurship

JobGrowth

90% of innovation comesfrom small business.

Source: National Commission on Entrepreneurship

JobGrowth

Largest USAPrivate Foundations

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $35.9B

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $18.6B

Ford Foundation, $13.7B

J. Paul Getty Trust, $10.1B

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $10B

Tom Szaky, Terracycle

FewerResponsibilities

Rent or Mortgage Health Insurance Student Loans No Financial Support from Parents Life Insurance Children (care, living, education)

Save $20,000+ per year

Freedom

Work on what they’re passionate about Work when they want Work with their good friends Work from home or wherever they want

Personal Growth& Learning

Learning About Business Soft Skills Learning (sales, networking, etc.) Self-Knowledge Expanded Comfort Zone

InstantGratification

Text your question to 242242

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Show that They Can Do It

"Whether you believe you can or cannot, you are right."

"Whether you believe you can or cannot, you are right."

"Whether you believe you can or cannot, you are right." – Henry Ford

SUCCESS STORIES

Networkof Speakers

Youngest ever minority CEO of publicly-held company

Companies have raised, been sold for, & earned over $1M Bestselling authors

Business Week 25 under 25

Recognized in top national press

Networkof Speakers

25 schoolsin two months

Age

Ethnicity

Geography

Economics

Gender

Nationality

ExposeSuccess Stories

Resources

Local Speakers Extreme Tour Cornell’s eClips

(http://eclips.cornell.edu/) Ecorner

(http://ecorner.stanford.edu/)

BELIEVE ANY OF YOUR STUDENTSCAN BE MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL

WITH SUSTAINED, DELIBERATE EFFORT AND OPPORTUNITIES.

Create a fun, safe, learning environment for action

ProvideAccountability

Share the mostimportant tasks theywill work on to others

Students do what they said they'd do

Share their victories with others and receive coaching

Applying the Gym Buddy Concept to Starting a Business

Mentorship

Space isn’t the challenge. Use classroom or be virtual.

Accountability

Discounted Vendors

BusinessIncubator

OurSolutions

michael@extremee.org

www.extremetour.org

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