External Opportunites

Action Management

For those of you seeking an opportunity Action Management is seeking a General Manager for a sports facility on the west side of Syracuse. This opportunity will be available at the end of spring beginning of summer.
Resumes are being considered now and the posting is listed in the OrangeLink system and the deadline is 2/15/2010. This is a really good opportunity for someone who is interested in marketing and is a strong entrepreneurial thinker.

The Creative Core $5k Student Idea Competition

A chance to win $5K for your business idea
The MDA’s annual Business Idea competition will awards the winner
Open to high school and college students
See the flier I have of the MDA on the CNY Creative Core $200k/$15k/$5k business ideas competition.
To learn more or enter the competition, visit the website at: http://www.creativecoreny.com

Intern Circle

Chelsea Prince. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of InternCircle.com. First social networking site for interns and employers. Also serves as a central clearing house for internship recruitment. Chelsea is interested in presenting InternCircle.com to the SU Entrepreneurship Club as a free, beneficial resource for students.

If interested:
Can connect with employers and individuals through personal profiles and messaging, find housing, employment, advice, intern events and mainstream media to keep up to date and engaged in the internship world.

“InternCircle.com caters to a competitive environment with profiles that allow individuals to peacock their professional assets and brand-image, contact companies directly, find an influx of information and be found through advanced searches.”

The Bombard Cavanaugh Financial Group of Wells Fargo Advisors

For those interested in a hourly paid internship in the financial services industry.Required to work 15 hours per week in the Downtown Syracuse office.The position should be filled someone with a strong interest in working with people. Successful completion of the internship program à a full time position with the group. If interested you should be able to demonstrate a solid work ethic, and a passion for what you do.

The tasks include (not limited to): various marketing and administrative duties (experience in brokerage industry is not required) .

E-mail a cover letter along with your resume to Kristopher Venne: kristopher.venne@wfadvisors.com

Internship with Sparkseed

A nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, pro-bono consulting, seed money, and web tools to college social entrepreneurs.
Sparkseed is quickly growing and hiring campus ambassadors at major universities across the nation to help brand Sparkseed and market their services to college social entrepreneurs.

You will be able to
-assist in the creation of a marketing campaign specific to your campus
-identify classes, clubs, and programs related to social entrepreneurship
-gain marketing experience and learn new skills
-experience working for a start-up

***internship interciews will be conducted on a rolling basis and the intership program begins on October 4th

Movers and Changers

NYSE and mtvU are looking for “the most promising young entrepreneurs in college right now”

Movers and Changers is a business plan competition in which individuals are given an opportunity to go to NYC to be a part of NYSE’s Global Entrepreneurship week. While in NYC they will compete for a chance to win $25,000 and a once in a lifetime opportunity to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Call for submissions: continues through October 16th, 2009. Once finalists are selected they will attend Global Entrepreneurship Week and participate in Mentoring Madness which pairs the candidates with business savvy CEOs to get feedback and advice.

The candidates will then split off to prepare their final presentation to the Movers and Changers Panel of Judges. Ultimately each candidate will try to persuade the panel that their plan is worthy of the grand prize. The Grand Prize: an opportunity to step on the floor of the NYSE and ring the opening bell and receive $25,000. This four episode series premieres in early November and runs through December.

The Onondaga County Business Development Road Show

An opportunity to learn how to make your business more successful. Able to talk one-on-one to professionals about business financing, workforce development, process improvement, energy efficiency, agribusiness, IDA assistance, business planning, and more.

The Famous Entrepreneurship Series (FES)

A non profit, member based organization created to encourage entrepreneurship in the greater Syracuse and Central Upstate New York region. An opportunity to take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to real-world practical business strategies and to learn from world renowned entrepreneurs and business leaders. Quarterly lectures where some of the world’s most admired CEOs and management thought-leaders come to speak. The 2009-2010 season is featuring Chris Hughs (co-found of Facebook and founder of “My.BarackObama.com”) and other exciting speakers
Offers student scholarships where students can register for the opportunity to attend all four events.

The Couri Hatchery Program

Provides student-run businesses with tons of mentoring, support, training, and free resources to help your business thrive. Its free!

Benefits
- Mentors help you with your business
- Free counseling and advice from others who have “been there, and done that”
- Networking opportunities with local entrepreneurs, alumni, and business executives who will help you take your business to the next level
- People will help you with the basic set-up for your office.

Internet Company

I graduated from Syracuse School of Management in 2007, where I was an active member of the E club at the time. Although I now live in Boston, I am looking to move to NYC and start an internet company with lots of potential growth, and I was wondering if the E club would be interested in helping me to create and execute the business. Although my ideas for the company are endless, I lack the technical expertise for the website. Perhaps the E club could join my team to help form this company, through contributing ideas and technical resources.

Let me know if you think the E club has the bandwidth and would be willing to join my team.

NEPA

I am the community service chair for the Nutrition Education and Promotion Association (NEPA), a student organization devoted to promoting health and providing nutrition education in the SU and Syracuse community. We are planning to work with the Parkside Afterschool Program to help the students develop and market a healthy snack. We thought the E-Club would be a great organization to collaborate with for this project. We were envisioning NEPA members working with the students to develop a recipe, make and package the product, and create a nutrition label for the package while the E-club members help the students with product development, designing a logo/label, and marketing the product. Please let me know if this sounds like a project E-Club would like to take part in. I look forward to hearing from you.