This career interest area helps you refine practically any entrepreneurial idea and connect you to the resources you'll need to launch and maintain a business.
Resources
Explore the list of resources below to learn more about Entrepreneurship. These resources will help you discover opportunities, grow your network and more!
Join the Entrepreneurship career interest area in Handshake:
- Log in to Handshake
- Click on your name in the top right corner of the screen
- Select 'Career Interests'
- Navigate to the question 'In what career interest areas are you most interested?'
- Select the 'Entrepreneurship' career interest area
- Click the 'Save My Career Interests' button
LaunchNet is the entrepreneurship gateway on campus. We will meet you where you are and provide you with a custom set of next steps. Whether you are a current CWRU student or alum, we will help you test, validate and turn your bright ideas into products and services.
Explore offerings in departments, programs and centers such as these:
Exploring entrepreneurship
- CWRU LaunchNet client stories
- Entrepreneurship Resources
- U.S. Small Business Administration Learning Center: a variety of online courses and resources to start and run your business
- Firsthand Vault Guides (sign in to Firsthand through My Career before accessing the guides below)
General exploration
- CWRU LaunchNET
- CWRU Rising Engineers And Technological Entrepreneurs (CREATE) - Summer Design Experience
- Electronics Design Center (EDC)
- Ohio Innovation Fund's Student Experience Program: provides events, internships and bootcamps
- JumpStart: Cleveland's nonprofit accelerator
- Sears ThinkBox
- Sears Undergraduate Design Lab
- The Bingham Student Workshop (BSW)
- Y Combinator's Startup School: a free, online curriculum program which connects founders all over the world to each other with the purpose of developing their startup ideas
- Graduate and professional school planning with The Career Center
- GradSchools.com
- Peterson's
- Fusion- Law, Business, Science and Innovation
- MEM- Masters of Engineering Management Program
- Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts (SCLTA)
- STEP- Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship Program
- Writing Personal Statements
Networking the best way to tap into the hidden job market—an immense underground marketplace where jobs open up and then are filled through word of mouth and personal referrals.
There are many ways to network at CWRU:
- Burton D. Morgan Foundation
- Cleveland Foundation
- Makers' Alliance
- Cleveland+ (Plus) /TeamNEO
- Code for America
- Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI)
- Global Cleveland
- Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise (GLIDE)
- Hispanic Business Center
- JumpStart
- MAGNET (Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network)
- Open Cleveland
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Small Business Administration (SBA) - Cleveland District
- Tech Savvy Women
- TechPint
- Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum (VYEF)
- Venture for America
- Women’s Business Centers of Ohio
Here is a selection of organizations that might interest you:
- Alpha Kappa Psi
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
- American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (CWRU ASME)
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- Case Engineers Council
- Case Rocket Team (CRT)
- CWRU Hacker Society
- Consult Your Community
- Design for America (CWRU + CIA)
- Developer Student Club
- Entrepreneurship Club (ENTP+)
- Northeast Ohio Student Venture Fund (NEOSVF)
- QGrad
- Robotics Club (CWRUbotix)
- Weatherhead Consulting Club
- Weatherhead Finance Club
- Weatherhead Marketing Club
- Weatherhead Women in Business
- WISER -Women In Science and Engineering Roundtable
For a full list of student clubs and organizations that match your interests, visit CampusGroups.
- LaunchNet Client Stories
- NFIB Research Foundation: small business economic trends, data and jobs reports
- OECD entrepreneurship and business statistics
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S. Census Bureau: Annual survey of entrepreneurs
- Read about outcomes and data for CWRU students