Austin Entrepreneurship Program
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For the most up to date information please visit the Austin Entrepreneurship Program's webpage.
About
Created around the idea of entrepreneurship, the program is located at reciently renovated Weatherford Hall. While many people feel entrepreneurship is a business school of thought; all students are welcome. The program allows students to live, and work together in Weatherford Hall, creating a sort of "think tank" for new innovated ideas and businesses. There are a number of courses and ancillary programs contained within the AEP. These include SIFE, AEP TICK and State Farm Visiting Fellows, and the OSU Entrepreneurship Society.
Entrepreneurship Minor
Currently at OSU students may recieve a minor in entrepreneurial studies. The full requirements can be found at the COB website. Courses involved include Introduction to Business Law, Entrepreneurship, Fundamentals of Accounting, and Venture Finance. This is a great program for students who are non-business majors that want to learn more about owning their own business or how to impliment interpreneurship skills within their future career. One of the key elements taught through this minor is entrepreneurial thought, which focuses on opportunity recognition and idea generation.
Programs
Statefarm Visiting Fellows
Weekly the AEP brings in leaders throughout the business community to meet with students. While visiting, they are generally available for dinner, fireside chats and coffee in Bing's Cafe. These meetings occur weekly during the school year and are a great resource for expanding your contact network; not to mention the experience these executives share. For more information please see the State Farm Visiting Fellows website.
AEP T.I.C.K.
The Austin Entrepreneurial Program - Team, Individual, Community, Knowledge program is one of the most comprehensive of its kind at any university. Students develop a portfolio of achievement that can be used to show experience to potential investors or employers. Each of the four areas contain competencies that students must complete to finish their portfolio. For more information please see the AEP TICK website.
Entrepreneurship Society
An COB club, which currently does not hold meetings. In the past it would bring in local business leaders for meetings where members could discuss things related to the experience of the visitor, much like the Statefarm Visiting Fellows program. For more information please see the OSU Entrepreneurship Society website and a link to the programs wiki at there Entrepreneurship Society page.
S.I.F.E.
A national organization with an OSU based chapter. The following is borrowed from their website: "The purpose of OSU SIFE is for students to apply their classroom experiences to outside business uses with the help of faculty and advisors. Skills learned in market economics, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics are applied to real life business situations." For more information please see the SIFE website.
Student Businesses
Students in the AEP program often start small businesses, examples of these are included below.
Campus Computers
Owned by Christopher Bush, Todd West, and Neil Trettin. Please visit their website.
Jingyee.net
President Wesley Mahler, CEO Cameron C. Boehmer. Please visit their website.
We are a student organization who has committed ourselves to helping students through college. We provide services to make textbooks cheaper, helping students get better grades and connecting students to future employers. All of our services are free, and we are here to serve Corvallis and the Oregon State community.
Through our website [corvallisclassifieds.net] we supply the best online classifieds for OSU and Corvallis. The website has been optimized for allowing users to submit classifieds within minutes. Our service is free, no registration is required, and it helps the community connect with each other. There was an impressive 250 books for sale through the website after our first term. Some students have claimed to have bought textbooks for as cheap as $10! Please take a moment to view our classifieds, and let us know what you think. Most importantly, leave your name; we love to recognize people who help us along our path!
We also provide services to help students perform better on exams. Through www.campusnotes.net we provide an online collaborative studying system for students, lecture notes, study guides, and downloadable video lectures. With the use of Wiki students are able to upload their notes, edit other people's notes, and help other students learn. At the moment a few classes are HHS 231, BI 102, GEO 102, ANTH 210 MTH 111, 112, 241, & 245. Members have access to lecture notes, class information, downloadable audio study guides, video lectures, and setup studying groups with other students. Our big bonus this term is our permission to record several math classes and make video lectures available for downloads. It serves as a great studying tool for exams, and if students have to miss a class, or simply relearn the material. Peter Argyres' a math professor, recommends our resources to his students! The ANTH 210 department has recommended us to their students. Students agree, that campusnotes.net is a great resource for any student, "the bio 101 study guide was incredible!" (Ashley Baum) "Thank you for taking your time to help us! " (anonymous). "Thank you for the link to the study guide...i got an A on the midterm because of it." Take a moment to visit www.campusnotes.net, and tell us what you think!
Enjoy the services we have to offer, and help us help you! Provide us with any information, good or bad, on our services! Again, always leave your name, email wesley@jingyee.netThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .
AGE Auctions
Owned By Adam Gulledge
AGE Auctions is an Ebay Trading Post that works on a consignment bases specializing in high end merchandise. Our main focus is on consigning antiques and vintage collectibles that go for a minimum of $100. We take the item from start to finish through the whole online auction process. At the end we take a percentage of the gross sale which is based on the final sale value.
AGE Auctions has one main focus and that is customer satisfaction, for both the consigners and winning bidders. Their general motto is a "reputation is more valuable than money." From that they derived there other goals of professionalism and organization. To maintain a strong reputation you need to maintain professionalism. To be professional you need to be not just on the top of the ball but ahead of the ball, and that means being streamlined and organized. Those are really the three keystones of the AGE Brand. If you want to consign your high end merchandise with people who can professionally and effecently present your item to litterally a world wide audience, then I think AGE Auctions can help
The Face behind the Program
Dr Justin Craig
-Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship-
-Department: Management - Entrepreneurship-
-Office: Bx 400C-
-Phone: 541-737-6061-
-Email: Justin.Craig@bus.oregonstate.edu -
Professor Craig Instructs Introduction to Entrepreneurship classes and the New Venture Lab course. He is also the Faculty-in-Residence in Weatherford Residential College as part of the Program. Dr Craig Delivers in his classes.
Random Facts:
We are a part of the Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Weatherford Hall We also sell custom vinyl stickers We are a sponsor of the new OSU Car Club We are a sponsor of the OSU Entrepreneurship Society We donate 10% of our income to OSU scholarships
Southern Oregon Sauce and Spice Company, LLC
Owner Keith Frost. Please visit their website.
WitMatix.com
Owner Tyler Walters. Please visit their website.
ZAudio
Owner Tyler Morita. Please visit their website.
