Washington University in St. Louis will launch its 2004 Olin Cup Entrepreneurship Competition with kickoff events on April 1 and April 13 on the Washington University Hilltop and Medical campuses. The Olin Cup Kickoff events are free and open to the public.
Washington University’s Skandalaris Entrepreneurship Program sponsors the Olin Cup Competition, that later this year will award a total of $70,000 in seed investment to the winners. Throughout the year, the Competition will hold over 50 workshops and other events, to promote learning, collaboration, and team formation. The events contribute to the goal of the Competition, to support the creation of new ventures.
On Thursday, April 1 from 4-6 p.m., the Olin Cup Competition will kick off on the Washington University Hilltop Campus in May Auditorium, Simon Hall at the Olin School of Business. Maxine Clark, Chief Executive Bear of Build-A-Bear Workshop will give a keynote address on the topic, “The Build-A-Bear Workshop Story: From Idea to Global Enterprise.”
The Olin Cup Competition will hold a second kickoff event on the Washington University Medical Campus on Tuesday, April 13, from 5-7 p.m. at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. Phillip Needleman, Ph.D., Prospect Venture Partners, and Associate Dean for Special Research Projects at Washington University School of Medicine, will deliver the keynote address.
The kickoff events are free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register online or for more information, call 314-935-4512.
The 2004 Olin Cup Competition is part of the Skandalaris Entrepreneurship Program at Washington University in St. Louis, recognized nationally as one of the leading business school programs in entrepreneurship. Washington University was recently awarded a $3 million grant by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to expand entrepreneurship education campus-wide.