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It's always about how we can evolve and make this better.

Evan Spiegel

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5 Business Plan Writing Tips

On Thursday, January 31 the Ain Center hosted the first Mark Ain Business Model Workshop of the semester. Building on the fall Foundry Forum workshops, this series is designed to help entrepreneurs prepare for upcoming business plan competitions. This workshop – The Genius of a Business Plan: Be Different and Be Better – covered a number of techniques and tricks for writing the best business plan possible. We boiled down the workshop into a few key points.

Read all five tips from the business plan writing workshop. 

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

Ted Malloch

By Entrepreneurship

Artistry and Entrepreneurship: Learning from Eric Booth

The Ain Center for Entrepreneurship recently co-hosted a workshop for entrepreneurial educator Eric Booth with Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership and the Barbara J. Burger iZone. Eric Booth shared a problem-solving framework that he utilizes to work through everything from pressing social issues to small problems.

Read more about the workshop and Cynefin Framework.

The riskiest thing we can do is maintain the status quo.

Bob Iger

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

Anita Roddick

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The Importance of an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Each and Every Industry

As part of an annual Simon School program, Wallace Gundy (MBA candidate, Ain Entrepreneur Scholarship recipient, and Ain Team member) traveled to the West Coast to visit a number of companies and enterprises in a variety of industries. One thing she noticed? To be successful, entrepreneurship has to exist in all of them.

Read more about Wallace’s experience on the West Coast.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Satya Nadella