Throughout October, E+I has been and will be visiting ASU campuses to encourage students to “just start” on their ideas for startups, non-profits and everything in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our friends from ASU News heard about ASU Launch Days and did this wonderful story about what Launch Days mean for ASU’s entrepreneurial spirit. Here’s an excerpt quoting Dr. Garret Westlake, associate dean of student entrepreneurship at ASU:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur vision is that entrepreneurship is as much a skill set and a way of thinking as a vocation,\u201d said Garrett Westlake, associate dean of student entrepreneurship. \u201cStudents tend to shy away from the word \u2018entrepreneur,\u2019 but when you talk to them, they\u2019re all working on something that they\u2019re excited about, like an idea for a community-service project.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Launch Days begin with outreach to students about all the ways they can see their ideas come to life. Tables are set up around campus and volunteers gave out T-shirts and notebooks with the motto \u201cJust Start.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For Open Pitch, students create two-minute \u201celevator pitches\u201d that describe their ideas and drum up enthusiasm. They are expected to explain their target markets, how they would get their ideas off the ground and how they would make money.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To read the full story, click here<\/a>. To RSVP for an upcoming ASU Launch Day Open Pitch event, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout October, E+I has been and will be visiting ASU campuses to encourage students to “just start” on their ideas for startups, non-profits and everything in between. Our friends from","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[33,37,20,21,32,29],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-remaking-higher-education","category-student-entrepreneurs","tag-asu","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-higher-education","tag-startup","tag-student-entrepreneur"],"uds_featured_image":{"id":385,"alt_text":"","caption":"TEMPE - Oct. 1, 2015 - ASU News - Launch Day - Garret Westlake Associate Dean of Student Entrepreneurship, right along with faculty associate Erika Feinberg, gives immediate feedback and encouragement to speakers at the Open Pitch event through the Entrepreneurship & Innovation program, in the W.P. Carey School of Business, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. More than a dozen undergraduate students presented their two-minute business concepts before other students and a pair of mentors, with the goal of improving their storytelling and perhaps make connections to help grow their ideas into real ventures. Photo by Charlie Leight\/ASU News","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":378,"height":252,"file":"2015\/10\/live_pitch-10_0.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"live_pitch-10_0-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/entrepreneurship.asu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/live_pitch-10_0-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"live_pitch-10_0-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/entrepreneurship.asu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/live_pitch-10_0-300x200.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":2.8,"credit":"Charlie Leight","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark III","caption":"TEMPE - Oct. 1, 2015 - ASU News - Launch Day - Garret Westlake Associate Dean of Student Entrepreneurship, right along with faculty associate Erika Feinberg, gives immediate feedback and encouragement to speakers at the Open Pitch event through the Entrepreneurship & Innovation program, in the W.P. Carey School of Business, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. More than a dozen undergraduate students presented their two-minute business concepts before other students and a pair of mentors, with the goal of improving their storytelling and perhaps make connections to help grow their ideas into real ventures. Photo by Charlie Leight\/ASU News","created_timestamp":1443721717,"copyright":"Copyright Arizona Board of Regents","focal_length":"200","iso":"2000","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"ASU News - Launch Day","orientation":1}},"post":384,"source_url":"https:\/\/entrepreneurship.asu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/live_pitch-10_0.jpg"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n