{"id":6103,"date":"2013-01-30T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/career\/?page_id=6103"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:36:43","slug":"entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bates Center for Purposeful Work offers and supports programs and events year-round to foster students\u2019 discovery of entrepreneurship, start-up and pitching skills, and social, material and technological innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Bobcat Ventures<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2019\/02\/Bobcat-Ventures-logo_MARK-ONLY_FINAL_OUTLINES-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2019\/02\/Bobcat-Ventures-logo_MARK-ONLY_FINAL_OUTLINES-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/files\/2019\/02\/Bobcat-Ventures-logo_MARK-ONLY_FINAL_OUTLINES-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/bobcat-ventures\/\">Bobcat Ventures<\/a> is Bates&#8217; own student-run entrepreneurship competition. The Center for Purposeful Work advises the Bobcat Ventures student leaders and supports alumni mentoring, clinics and judges for this highly engaging and successful semester-long program.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/a\/groups.bates.edu\/g\/bobcatventures\/members\">Sign up for the Bobcat Ventures Google Group<\/a> Bobcat Ventures announcements, resources, events, and all entrepreneurship and startup news from the Center for Purposeful Work<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Practitioner-Taught Short Term Courses on entrepreneurship<\/h3>\n<p>2017:\u00a0<strong>Startup Project Management Bootcamp<\/strong>, led by Serial Entrepreneur\u00a0John Stadler<br \/>\nand <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/practitioner-taught-courses\/business-of-the-arts\/\">The Business of The Arts<\/a><\/strong>, with Sara Juli, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarajuli.com\/\">dancer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarajuli.com\/\">consultant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2015:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/curricular\/practitioner-taught-courses\/entrepreneurship\/\"><strong>Practicum in Entrepreneurship<\/strong><\/a>, led by Darrell Williams \u201986, founder and CEO of\u00a0Eighteen Ventures\u00a0and HealthTech Maine<\/p>\n<p>2014: <strong>Digital Innovation<\/strong>, taught by Ben Schippers \u201904 and Will Schenk, co-founders of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/happyfuncorp.com\/#home\">Happy Fun Corp<\/a>, featuring guest speakers, entrepreneurship talks and computer\u00a0lab time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Center for Purposeful Work offers and supports programs and events&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24507,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6103\/revisions\/24507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}