The Entrepreneurship Club@ UT Dallas is sponsored by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UTD. Membership is open to both graduate and undergraduate students from across the University.

Entrepreneurship Club Activities

Presents:

 
T. Boone Pickens

Forum on Energy Issues and Innovations

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, 1 p.m.
UT Dallas Conference Center

Please join us for the inaugural lecture of the UT Dallas Forum on Energy Issues and Innovation featuring Texas business legend Boone Pickens discussing the Pickens Plan for U.S. energy independence.

Free and open to the public

Limited reserved seating available for students (one ticket per student). Reserve your seat now.

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Monthly Meetings
Regular meetings with guest speakers, tours of entrepreneurial businesses, etc.

Participation in IIE Community Outreach Programs

Entrepreneurship Club members are involved as student volunteers, providing assistance and support for the programs and initiatives of the Institute, providing opportunities for “backstage” contacts and networking opportunities with speakers, entrepreneurs and program participants from the community.

Camp Enterprise

Camp Enterprise is an intensive three-an-a-half-day seminar put on by the Dallas Rotary Club that teaches business issues for a select group of high school seniors. Each September, Dallas area students interact with business executives, politicians, union leaders, and government representatives. Participating young men and women explore fundamental challenges, opportunities and obligations of the free enterprise system. Dallas Rotary Club hopes to spark something in the students, and get them interested in free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and personal finance.

The Entrepreneurship Club @ UT Dallas members serve as mentors for the students at Camp Enterprise.

Entrepreneurship Exchange Speaker Series

The Entrepreneurship Series is the Fall Speaking Series presented by The Entrepreneurship Club @ UT Dallas and The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship @ UT Dallas. The series is designed to energize students on campus with dreams of being entrepreneurs by hearing from men and women who have been or currently are involved in the entrepreneurship community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and beyond.

Past speakers included: Mr. Jackie Kimzey, General Partner of Sevin Rosen Funds, Mr. Krish A. Prabhu, Former President & CEO, Tellabs and Mr. Dave Vucina, Chief Executive Officer – Wayport, Von Ehr, founder and chairman of Zyvex Corp, Todd Whitthorne, CEO Cooper Concepts, Mr. Derrick William Thompson, Raleigh, NC, Founder of 20/15 IT Solutions, and Ms. Alicia Danielle Polak, Philadelphia, PA, Founder of The Khaya Cookie Company.

Entrepreneurship Exchange - Fall Speaker Series

Many well known local successful business executive are lined up to speak to our club members

Fall 2009

 
Mr. Craig Moore, CEO
CiCi's Pizza

Free Pizza and drinks will be served at 5:00PM in SOM Atrium!!!

Mr. Moore will be speaking to E. Club members on Oct. 15 at 5:45PM in SOM 1.118.

Craig Moore joined CiCi's Pizza in 1992 as a restaurant manager and worked his way into ownership and the position of President in 2003. As President, Moore oversaw the company's transition from a local group of restaurants to a national chain with restaurants from coast to coast, growing from 30 restaurants and 17 franchisees in Texas to over 650 restaurants and 270 franchisees in 32 states.

Founded in 1985, CiCi's has emerged as a significant brand in the pizza segment, appealing largely to families with its "all-you-want" buffet featuring 18 kinds of pizza, plus pasta, salads and dessert for less than $6 per person at most locations.

CiCi's Pizza recently earned top marks in the Men's Health "Eat This, Not That!" restaurant report card, which investigated 66 major chain restaurants, providing insider tips and strategies that allow families to continue eating out responsibly.

DISD mentoring program

DISD Mentoring Program-Support of National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Mentor high school students on their business plans for regional and national competitions.

Volunteers

IIE Events (Anniversary, New Venture Showcase, BootCamp, and many others)

Club Officers: