Student Pitchfest for San Diego MIT Enterprise Forum drew interest from business students. Learn about how we did it and how you can as well. Features student Will Caldwell, FromAbove. Thank you to Jim Staylor @Staylor Made Productions.

1. Entrepreneurship
is
Alive
Student Pitchfest draws interest from
technology driven business students
IACBE
April 9, 2014
Dr. Mary Beth McCabe
mmccabe@nu.edu

2. What makes a student
entrepreneur?
 A variety of different skillsets, like a “jack of all trades”
(Lazear, 2005)
 Student entrepreneurs are different. Politis, D,
Winborg, J., Dahlstrand, A. (2012) Exploring the
resource logic of student entrepreneurs.
 Creating entrepreneurs from student scientists (2002)
Tan and Subramanniam. Science and the student
entrepreneur

4. Promotion of event:
earned,
shared and,
owned media.

5. http://youtu.be/tyXyex3zDgI

7. McCabe, left, with judges and finalists

8. How can I create an event
like this at my school?
 Name your Student Pitchfest Event, featuring student
business presentations (3-5 minutes) and create a
depository
 Students submit their business plans and committee selects
finalists
 Train mentor coaches and select judges
 Select Winner/s to feature at future larger event
 Certificates to all who students who presented
 Set your budget: Ours was $600 in prizes. Grand prize team wins
$500, second place $100, Top three teams get 1 year student memberships of
academic organization
 Create realistic deadlines for submission/selections
 Next year, partner with International competition for
winner.

9. References
 Lazear, Edward P, Entrepreneurship (2005). Journal of
Labor Economics, Vol.23(4), p.649-680
 Politis, D, Winborg, J., Dahlstrand, A. Exploring the
resource logic of student entrepreneurs (2012)
International Small Business Journal. Vol. 30(6) pp.659-
683.
 Tan, Leo Wee Hin and Subramaniam, R, Science, Science
and the Student Entrepreneur, 2002, Nov 22, 2002 p.
1556.