Events & Programs

Meet successful, award-winning entrepreneurs, hear their stories and learn what it takes to launch a business.

This fall, join us for virtual entrepreneurship opportunities.

Register for the current oppportunities below.

  • Venture Club - Looking for the innovation and entrepreneurial hook-up? Meet other like-minded students, learn from guest speakers, participate in workshops, and hang during watch parties. Venture Club is where like-minded students find community.
  • Whiteboard Wednesday - Each Wednesday someone from TU’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be available to whiteboard your idea with you and identify next steps.
  • Big Idea Poster Competition, November 10, 2020 - Take your entrepreneurial pitch and presentation skills to the next level with the cohort-based Big Idea Poster Competition experience. At TU, we grow innovators and entrepreneurs through a ‘practice internal, compete externally’ approach. Work with peers and faculty to advance your ideas.

Past Entrepreneurship Unplugged Speaker Events

Entrepreneurship Unplugged has brought dozens of entrepreneurs to campus since 2015. 

Larry Fiorino

Larry Fiorino ’84

Serial Entrepreneur, President, Fiorino Consulting

Virtual Events on blackboard

Virutal "Events" & Resources

Due to in-person events being canceled, we've set up a Blackboard site to host out events and resources. To attend a virtual event or see resources, do the following:

  1. Log in to TU Blackboard
  2. Select "Community"
  3. Search for "Student Launch Pad"
  4. Under the "Organization ID", select the down error and select "enroll."

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Think Like An Entrepreneur

Grow skills around thinking innovatively. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Brute Think
  • Brainstorming
  • Question-Storming
  • Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
Design Thinking Workshop

Design thinking is human-centered process for creative problem solving that can be used by anyone in any setting to look at problems or issues from an empathetic position and come up with solutions.

This workshop teaches the basics of design thinking and walks attendees through a fun design thinking exercise.

Protecting Your Intellectual Property

This professional clinic led by legal experts will discuss how you as an entrepreneur, writer, artist, creator, etc. can and SHOULD protect your intellectual property.

Competition Boot Camps

Get ready for the Business Model Competition.

Perfect Your Video Submission Workshops

Perfect your video submission for the Business Model Competition.