For the second year in a row, the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and the McDonough School of Business are partnering to help teams of current students and alumni kick-start business plans over the summer. Called Summer StartUp, the program is designed to help entrepreneurial students and recent alumni do just that – to spend two months over the summer developing business plans and initiative their own businesses.
McDonough and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative collaborate to give participating students working space as well as great networking opportunities and exposure to potential business investors. This year, Summer StartUp will include 15 student ventures drawn from across the university.
“This program gives students a safe place to work together, to fail and to learn all at the same time,” Eric Koester, professor of entrepreneurship and advisor to the launch program, said in a statement.
All Georgetown students may apply to the program, regardless of their major. This year’s 15 selected teams include students from McDonough and the School of Consulting Studies. Proposed ventures range from mobile application companies to companies selling custom products such as pet shampoo and electric bicycles, McDonough reports. “The best companies are built with a lot of collaboration, and this program helps foster that community,” Koester stated.
View the full StartupHoyas Incubator Summer 2013 Roster.
