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As a student, you already have decided to invest in yourself and your future by continuing your education. You might know exactly where you want to go. Or you might be on a path to self discovery, trying to assess your interests, abilities, values, and goals. If you’d like to explore studies in business and entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurial Resource Center is your first step in asking the right questions and getting meaningful answers.
Videos, "games," resources, employment data, and other tools help students with career decisions.
This Humboldt County Student Business Challenge is a business plan competition for local college students and recent graduates, and offers many resources for business plan creation.
This article asks the question, "Are You Cut Out to Be an Entrepreneur?"
Podcast interviews about innovation and entrepreneurship with renowned entrepreneurs and executives, produced by students of Stanford University's Business and Design schools.
Information about programs and resources advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth.
An award-winning student-run business providing low-cost computer, administrative, and technical services to local businesses and community organizations.
This degree program prepares its students to plan, organize, and manage human, financial, and material resources to achieve the objectives of a business.
Links to free career sites helping people assess strengths and interests and learn more about the best career match for individual talents and personality.
In less than 18 months, Las Positas College can train individuals for new, interesting, and meaningful jobs. Counselors help match a person's natural abilities with specific programs.
Serving students and community members, this center offers free resources on educational programs, career exploration, and related employment opportunities.
Programs include Computer Information Systems, Computer Applications Software, Internetworking Technology and Cisco, Computer Network Administration (Microsoft), Cisco Network Associate, Cisco Network Professional, Computer Science, Computer Programming, and Computer Programming for the Web.
Support services helping current and prospective students with educational and career goals.
Through this award-winning, entrepreneurial venture, advanced students provide low-cost design, technical, business, and marketing services to local businesses and organizations. Services include logo and identity design, website development, business cards and letterhead, folders and brochures, promotional materials, marketing strategies, and packaging and label prototyping.
This program provides the necessary business foundation to enable potential or present entrepreneurs to learn and apply management principles to the selection, establishment, and operation of a small business.
The faculty advises students on educational opportunities and helps students get started in the program. Some classes may be waived based on a student’s previous training and work experience.
Programs can lead to career specialties including: interior design; photography; visual communications; accounting; retail; marketing; engineering; horticulture; viticulture and winery technology; sports medicine; fire service technology; emergency medical technician; teaching; childcare; and automotive, industrial, vacuum, welding, and laser technology.
A leading business plan competition to encourage students and researchers in the MIT community to act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow's leading firms.
The consortium promotes collaboration and communication among university-based entrepreneurship centers.
Developed for the U.S. Department of Labor, this network offers comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.
Information about social entrepreneurship, based on the PBS television series "The New Heroes."
An overview of links, resources, and publications for entrepreneurs, specifically for the class Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures, but valuable for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.
An extensive directory of links to careers, jobs, education, employment, and career reference resources sorted by topic and region.
This article asks the question, "Is entrepreneurship for you?"
