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Hope's Entrepreneurship Initiative (HEI)

The Situation

"[There] is a potentially devastatingly global shortfall of about 1.8 billion good jobs....What the U.S. needs more than anything in its quest to win new good jobs in its cities is that rare talent to start companies or to create business models that work, that grow organizations...." -- J. Clifton, The Coming Jobs War, 2011

 

A Solution: "Real" World Experience. Ideas Into Reality. Passionate Work.

"Preparation for entrepreneurial leadership does not come from books. Books sometimes give you an insight or an outline, but real preparation consists of hard work and wandering in the desert, much feedback, much forgiveness, and the yeast of failure." -- adapted from Max DePree

One HEIer's Project:

Other HEI Information

HEI Advisory Board

HEI Annual Report

One HEIer's Experience

HEI Press Releases:

HEIer Matt Rutter at Startup Weekend West Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNDFdCFdrM

Press Release: January 2012 Winter Happening Schedule

Press Release: December 2012 The Value of Liberal Arts in Entrepreneurship

Press Release: December 2011 MyGreatLakesOnline allows fans to show love for favorite Great Lake

Press Release: December 2011 How to See the North Pole Thanks to Hope College Students

Press Release: December 2011 GR Hosts Startup Weekend

Press Release: December 2011 ReindeerCam on national HLN Morning Express with Robin Meade

Press Release: December 2011 ReindeerCam on local Fox news channel

Press Release: December 2011 Hope Entrepreneurs Launch Quirky Website ReindeerCAM.com

Press Release: November 2011 Entrepreneurship Participants Competing at Accelerate Michigan

Press Release: November 2011 Hope Entrepreneur Student in New York Times

Press Release: November 2011 New York Times Slide Education Life Features HEI Summer Fellow Samantha Wollfis

Press Release: November 2011 Davenport to Host Regional Idea Pitch

Press Release: October 2011 In Entrepreneurial Ideas, Liberal Arts Majors Win

Press Release: July 2011 Hope helps Students Develop Business Ideas

Press Release: July 2011 "SURF" Celebrates Science Research Summer

Press Release: June 2011 HEI Students Launch Ideas

Press Release: March 2011 Idea Pitch Encourages Student Entrepreneurs

Press Release: December 2010 “Social e-textbook” Concept Wins Competitive Fellowship

Press Release: December 2010 HEI student launches live video web site featuring deer

Press Release: October 2010 Pitch and Learn