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Central students plan to pursue two Startup Semester companies
As the first Central College “Startup Semester” draws to a close, students from two of the six companies formed will continue to pursue their business ventures full-time over the summer. This past spring, Wade Steenhoek, director of the college’s Martin Heerema Entrepreneurship …
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Iowa college’s Startup Semester gets students “outside of the building”
With the help of a group of dedicated professional mentors and educators, 15 students will continue their entrepreneurship studies at Central College through a new “Startup Semester.” The private college, located about an hour southeast of Des Moines, has offered courses in entrepreneurship for a few years now, but this semester the professors and students…
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Prairie Portrait: Wade Steenhoek of Central College
Silicon Prairie News: What are the biggest challenges you face in helping cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset among college students? | Wade Steenhoek: Students often mistakenly think that entrepreneurship is reserved for someone else and question their own place in this space. Part of my role is to establish competence in starting a new venture but…
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