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BYOBB Protégé and Mentor Meeting NightBe Your Own Boss Bowl graphic

*Monday, February 15, 2010, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
1st Floor Alter Hall, Undergraduate Student Commons

Please join us as we briefly review the 2010 Be Your Own Boss Bowl program, answer your questions and ask for your feedback on our mentoring program for the business plan competition.

Meet with mentors from the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group and discuss your business ideas. Find a teammate and collaborate with other BYOBB participants. We will discuss how to keep on track to meet the March 29th deadline. Please RSVP to dperiquito@temple.edu by Friday, February 12th. Refreshments will be served!
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Toolbox Series # 4 - Using Social Media to Market Your Entrepreneurial Business

Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
505 Alter Hall
Presented By: Evan Urbania & Matthew Ray, Founders, ChatterBlast Media

Learn how to harness the power of the social web. Implement the power of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn into your marketing plan. This is a crash course in Web 2.0 strategies that will pay dividends and allow you to propel your entrepreneurial business to the next level.

Complementary lunch will be provided! Seating is limited to the first 25 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis! This is a must-attend event! RSVP to iei@temple.edu.

Temple and IEI Mourn the Loss of Entrepreneurship Professor Chris Pavlides

Chris Pavlides Constantine "Chris" Pavlides, an associate professor in the Fox School of Business at Temple University and founder of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group, died November 17 in a single-car crash. He was 62.

Mr. Pavlides, a member of Fox School's Entrepreneurship program in the Strategic Management department, had served as executive director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI). He also introduced Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures, a science and high-technology business cultivator, to the entrepreneurial portfolio of programs in the Fox School at Temple.

During his tenure at the IEI, from 2004 to 2008, Mr. Pavlides elevated the program into the top 10 in the nation.

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Fox School of Business Among Top Ten in the Nation for Entrepreneurship

(September 22, 2009) From more than 2,300 schools surveyed by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, Temple University’s Fox School of Business was recognized as having some of the best entrepreneurship programs in the country. The Fox School ranked fifth in the nation for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs and sixth in the graduate entrepreneurship survey.

Since Entrepreneur magazine started its ranking surveys seven years ago, Temple’s Fox School of Business has placed among the top schools in the country each year.

“Venture creation is absolutely essential to the health and strength of our economy, especially in these challenging times,” said Jaine Lucas, executive director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute and Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures at the Fox School. “In our programs, the academic and applied components work in tandem to give students an accurate picture of entrepreneurship, and to equip them with the skills to maximize their opportunity for a successful – and sustainable – enterprise.

Temple’s entrepreneurship program includes interdisciplinary educational opportunities, internships with new and growing ventures, intense mentoring and coaching, annual idea generation and business plan competitions, workshops and seminars, community outreach, and annual conferences in social, global, women’s and industry-specific entrepreneurship.

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