UMass Boston Entrepreneurship Center

UMass Boston Entrepreneurship Center
Real World Training for the Start-up Economy
The Entrepreneurship Center (EC) at the College of Management complements, augments, and enhances entrepreneurial education at UMass Boston, providing hands-on experience and practice in building start-up businesses and entrepreneurial careers.
Collaborators in the College of Managements Entrepreneurship Specialization, the EC drives the continued development of the Student Entrepreneur Intern Program (StEP) and partner-mentoring program in the Venture Development Center. It develops and delivers programs, events, workshops, scholarships, and mentorships that integrate students entrepreneurial education with real-time practice in real-world start-ups.
The Entrepreneurship Centers goal is to enhance UMass Bostons position as a significant source of highly skilled, well-educated workers for the Massachusetts economy.

Opening in April 2010, the Entrepreneurship Center (EC) at the College of Management adds breadth and depth to the singular Entrepreneurship Specialization at UMass Boston, the only school that requires hands on experience for a degree.

The ECs programs, workshops, and mentorships link classroom learning with live practice in real world start-ups. They help students develop the smarts, savvy, and skills to take their place in the 21st century start-up economy. At UMass Boston, we now teach entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Specialization, and practice entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Center, and live entrepreneurship in the Venture Development Center, says EC founding director Dan Phillips. This university is filled with students who are purposeful, driven, un-entitled, and know how to handle adversity, says Phillips. They are the type of people I liked to hire for my own start-ups. And they have the ability to be the next generation workforce and founders for our start-up economy in the Boston area market.

Dan Phillips, Founder and Director of the EC has spent the past 25 years as an executive with four venture capital backed software companies. Two of these companies achieved successful initial public offerings on NASDAQ, and two were acquired by Fortune 200 companies. The former COO of Concord Communications, CEO of Silverback Technologies (which was acquired by Dell Inc.), and founder and funder of the UMass Boston Scholarship/Mentoring Program, Phillips is Entrepreneur in Residence at the Venture Development Center. There, he has helped build the Student Entrepreneur Program (StEP) and placed more than 40 UMass Boston students in paid internships with many of the leading venture capital backed start-ups in the area.
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, PhD, is the Research Director for the Entrepreneurial Center and teaches the undergraduate and MBA courses in entrepreneurship and new venture creation in the College of Management at UMass Boston. Professor Benya­min, as his students call him, has published three books and more than 40 papers and chapters on the emergence and transformation of new companies, and the non-linear dynamics of leadership and management. His articles have appeared in internationally recognized journals such as Organization Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Academy of Management Executive, for which he received the Article of the Year award in 2000. www.management.umb.edu/entrepreneurship

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• EC
• Entrepreneurism
• Entrepreneurship Center
• UMass Boston
• start-up
• start-up economy
• public university
• Venture Development Center
• Massachusetts economy

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