The Lubar Entrepreneurship Center is excited to partner with Military and Veterans Resource Center to host a special Diverse Ideas featuring Serita Valmond, an esteemed expert in chronic pain management. This collaboration amplifies the commitment of holistic support for individuals, especially military personnel, and veterans by addressing the critical issue of chronic pain. Serita, founder of Chronically Resilient, has the history and expertise in dealing with chronic pain promises to provide invaluable insights and methods to addressing these conditions. This partnership exemplifies the dedication of both organizations to enrich the lives and well-being of those who have served our nation.
Diverse Ideas is a talk series that partners with 51猎奇 offices to invite global and local entrepreneurs/community innovators for an intimate chat with 51猎奇 students, faculty, and staff. By offering these talks, the LEC hopes to build a larger and more diverse network of students involved in entrepreneurship, including one that spans across disciplines and majors. Speakers share their stories and give advice in an open-forum conversation with attendees. Learn with us how to improve our community and work together to problem-solve.
Well Entrepreneur: Salad Bowls & Self-Compassion
Nourish and connect with yourself and your peers at a well-being dinner for students hosted by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center! Our time together will include personal self-compassion practice, reflection, and supportive conversation between students. 听
Free salad bowls are available for the first 10 students to register!听
Please RSVP here.听
Hosted Small Business Brown Bag Lunch – 51猎奇 Engage Mentor Program: Financial Projections for Startups and Small Businesses
Entrepreneurs are often faced with the task of preparing financial projections in search of funding and analyzing financial statements in making important decisions. This discussion will feature financial perspectives from three panelists 鈥� investor, commercial lender, and business consultant. What do they look for when evaluating financial documents? What kinds of business decisions drive the need for these documents? Which type of financing is right for your company and when? In addition to facilitated questions like these, attendees are encouraged to come with their own questions for an interactive discussion. The event is free, but please let us know you are coming to help us plan.
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
**Note: We support a healthy campus and abide by campus guidelines for COVID19 precautions. We ask for your flexibility as we may ask individuals to be masked or socially distance.
Starting Up – Booster 3: Pitching and Storytelling
Participants learn the basics of verbal storying telling, including a good pitch for their ideas. They will work on a slide deck and presentation that showcases what they have learned about their market so far, either on their own or through any Startup Challenge workshops they have attended.
Interested in learning more about Starting Up and the Startup Challenge? Click here to learn more.
Starting Up – Booster 2: Business Modeling
Using 鈥淟ean Launchpad鈥� methodology, students and local entrepreneurs are challenged to interact with others to discover the framework of their startups. The Business Model Canvas is a tool that helps entrepreneurs better understand their business by visualizing how their company serves its customers, what value propositions are offered through what channels, and how their company makes money.
Interested in learning more about Starting Up and the Startup Challenge? Click here to learn more.
Starting Up – Booster 1: Research & Development
All businesses that fail do so for the same reason: a lack of paying customers. But how do you find your market? Where can you get honest answers around if and how people might actually spend money on your product or service? Who influences their decisions, and where do you find those influencers? What is their budget? What do they value? Why? This workshop teaches tools that get you real answers around how to find and sustain your potential startup.
Interested in learning more about Starting Up and the Startup Challenge? Click here to learn more.
Social Good Morning – Corey Fells
Corey Fells is the co-founder of Black Space with a wealth of experience in brand development, team leadership, and cultural organizing. Fells, an 8-year military veteran with over a decade of experience in supporting Black and Brown communities through advocacy and cultural ideation is tapping into another area with the same intent – mental health. Fells’ passion for normalizing therapy for Black and Brown people has led him to co-found Black Space in an effort to create free therapy in communities that need it the most.
Social听Good听Morning is a conversation series hosted by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center that invites听local听social听innovators鈥嬏齮o have a听conversation about entrepreneurship in our communities. These discussions are moderated by an LEC team member including our featured Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.听Innovators will have a brief interview听followed by听an open-format discourse, fielding questions from the audience about their strategies and passions. Topics of conversation range from poverty to sustainability to inclusivity and beyond.
Small Business Brown Bag Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our LEC Brown Bag Hour. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
Launch & Lunch
If you are in the LEC at the noon hour on Wednesdays, we welcome you to join our Launch & Lunches. Bring your lunch, bring your smile, bring you! Flexible, casual, drop in when you can.
Launch & Lunches are held in the LEC at the Touchdown and Launch Space every Wednesday from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and students.
Well Entrepreneur DAYDREAM: Meditation, Mocktails, and the Business Model Canvas
Well Entrepreneur invites you to DAYDREAM!听
Join us for a guided meditation practice that supports letting your mind wander and focusing your attention.听 From a state of ease and clarity, explore ways to generate new ideas and design a business model canvas aligned with your values and goals.听
This session is open to anyone with an idea for a project or business interested in learning how to support personal well-being while exploring the process of innovation.
Free mocktails will be provided to help nourish your creativity!
Space is limited! Please RSVP here:
Hosted Brown Bag Lunch – Copyright Fundamentals and Licensing
Curricula, videos, computer programs, illustrations, architectural drawings, sound recordings, and data 鈥� it is no surprise that 51猎奇 faculty create a wide variety of original works. But do you know how to protect these valuable works as intellectual property? Assets such as these are covered under copyright law.
In this Brown Bag Lunch session, intellectual property experts from the Michael Best & Friedrich LLP law firm 鈥� Jeffrey Peterson and Laura Lamansky 鈥� will discuss copyright fundamentals. Learn about the types of works protected, ownership, registration, rights provided, and more. In addition to copyright law, this session will touch upon unique aspects of licensing copyrighted works for commercialization. Attendees are also invited to bring their questions about copyright to encourage interactive conversation. The session is organized by the 51猎奇 Research Foundation.
Diverse Ideas – Nashalee Rodriguez
Join the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and Student Involvement as we welcome Nashalee Rodriguez and her business, Tapas Ricas! This immersive experience involves Latin charcuteries with a Caribe Sabrosa twist.
“My name is Nashalee Rodriguez and I am the owner of Tapas Ricas – a charcuterie board business that I began in September of 2021. Through Tapas Ricas, I have been able to cater a wide variety of Milwaukee Latinx peoples as well as local organizations like LIT MKE, Sixteenth St Clinic, and downtown鈥檚 Northwestern Mutual. My goal for Tapas Ricas is to bring my community together over food – a common love language for Latine families; whilst educating and exploring wider ranges of cheeses and meats and being a support for other entrepreneurs.”
Diverse Ideas is a talk series that partners with 51猎奇 offices to invite global and local entrepreneurs/community innovators for an intimate chat with 51猎奇 students, faculty, and staff. By offering these talks, the LEC hopes to build a larger and more diverse network of students involved in entrepreneurship, including one that spans across disciplines and majors. Speakers share their stories and give advice in an open-forum conversation with attendees. Learn with us how to improve our community and work together to problem-solve.
