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Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship
Crummer’s Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship provides a variety of practical experiences to promote successful entrepreneurship. Its mission is to educate and connect students and entrepreneurs for advanced entrepreneurial thought and action.
Meet Frank
Crummer Student Shares Entrepreneurial Journey
Xinrun “Frank” Zhuang ’18 ’20MBA reflects on his entrepreneurial journey upon completion of the Early Advantage MBA program.
Venture
Venture Plan Competition
The Orlando Region's Largest Business Plan Competition
The annual competition, hosted by Crummer every year since 2015, is Central Florida’s largest, most prestigious, and comprehensive business plan and pitch competition for startups. Open to all regionally headquartered startups, the annual competition is where teams battle for funding, exposure, and mentorship in front of the region’s top entrepreneurs, leaders, and venture capitalists. Participants compete for prize money before multiple distinguished judges panels, all of whom are successful investors and entrepreneurs. The competition continues to serve as the platform for Central Florida startup companies to gain exposure and funding.
This year’s Crummer Rollins Venture Plan Competition was fully virtual! Follow the below link to visit the Competition’s Virtual Finals webpage where you can register to attend the live finals event taking place on Thursday, March 18!
Entrepreneurial Growth Series
This workshop series provided by the Crummer Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship at Rollins College—Central Florida’s premier education and networking resource for growth-stage entrepreneurship—offers you the opportunity to expand your skills to help you shape and drive your business towards accelerated growth. Taught by experts and successful entrepreneurs, the series covers a wide range of topics from sales and operations to negotiation and marketing. These workshops are designed to provide you with the knowledge and tools that you will be able to immediately apply to your business. Offered in an a la carte format, we encourage you to choose the sessions most relevant to you and your needs.
Student Programming
The Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship connects students with advanced entrepreneurial thought leaders across a wide variety of industries through program opportunities, coaching and mentoring that build lasting, valuable relationships.
Resources for Entrepreneurs
The Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship assists growth-stage entrepreneurs with work space options, interns, and consulting project partners.
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About Us
Vision: To be a catalyst and thought leader in the acceleration of successful entrepreneurship.
Mission: The mission of the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College is to develop global business leaders and innovators through a high quality, integrated, experiential education that prepares them to add significant value to their organizations and communities.
Board of Advisors
Since the founding of the CFAE, we have worked diligently to bring together a world class group of entrepreneurial minds to serve as faculty members, administrators, and advisors. The success we have enjoyed to date is a direct result of their invaluable contributions.