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Do what you love. Create your own path. Make a difference.<\/h1>

Entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets help you create opportunities and sustain success. These timeless and transferable talents will enrich any career with creativity, purpose, and impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Blaze your trail, control your future, and make things better<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Whether you\u2019re looking to launch a startup or sidehustle, freelance, or contribute to innovative projects in established organizations, you’ll benefit from entrepreneurial education, experience, and practice. The CEL empowers ALL students from ALL disciplines with capabilities needed to achieve and sustain success in a rapidly changing world. Increase your impact by becoming an entrepreneurial leader. Start here!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Exploring<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Are you “entre-curious”? Not sure what entrepreneurial leaders do? Not sure if you “have what it takes”? Worried that new ventures are too difficult or risky to consider? Explore issues like these with CEL offerings that allow you to decide if you want invest in developing your entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Do you care about an important problem? Do you have ideas for making things better? If so, we invite you to learn and practice design thinking methods and join a community of creative problem solvers. These offerings will help you create, test, and refine your proposals so you can enrich your ideas and creative capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Launching<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Are you interested in pursuing a startup proposal? Are you already an entrepreneur? The CEL’s most exclusive offerings offer startup support for those who are attempting to create their own<\/em> jobs (full time or side hustles!). Ready to get real? Then learn how to launch and access financial resources to support your startup.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Entrepreneurship is “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” To those who want to make things better<\/span> but lack budget or authority, we welcome you to the challenges of entrepreneurship!<\/p>\n

Enrich your career by learning how to turn ideas and inventions into real-world impact at the CEL!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Featured Opportunities<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Here is what’s HOT for entrepreneurial students looking for insights, experiences, connections, and funding.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Entrepreneurship Club<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Looking for a club to push you closer to your 2026 goals?\u00a0Check out the\u00a0Entrepreneurship Club at UCF.\u00a0Sign up below!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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2026 Rice Business Plan Competition<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Last year’s winner took home more than $900k in funding and RBPC alumni have gone on to raise more than $6 billion in total.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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TCU\u2019s Values and Ventures Competition<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\n

TCU\u2019s Values and Ventures Competition invites undergraduate entrepreneurs from around the world to compete for\u00a0over $100,000\u00a0in cash prizes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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