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Startup Weekend Tampa Bay will connect local entrepreneurs, developers, designers and startup enthusiasts with mentors and resources at USF St. Petersburg June 7-9. It is the fourth Startup Weekend Tampa Bay event and the first to be held at USF St. Petersburg, hosted by the USFSP Entrepreneurship Club. Throughout the course of this 54-hour event, attendees will share ideas, form … Continue reading
The University of South Florida St. Petersburg, C1 Bank, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council and Workforce Pinellas today announced an important new collaboration to develop innovative ways to teach key banking principles. The USFSP Banking Institute, run by the College of Business, provides management training for the C1 Bank Management Associate Program at the bank’s new headquarters in downtown … Continue reading
Daniel James Scott
Daniel James Scott, associate director of the USF St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Program at the College of Business, has been named the Florida 2013 Small Business Advocate of the Year. The award honors the work Scott has done through the Entrepreneurship Program, recently named the Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program in the United States. It is awarded annually by the Small Business … Continue reading
Philip Trocchia (second from right), Ph.D., with students who worked on marketing at the USFSP Waterfront.
Philip Trocchia, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing in the USF St. Petersburg College of Business, has been awarded the 2013 Bank of America Endowed Professorship in Business. The professorship, established in 1989, rotates among professors in the College of Business and is awarded on a competitive basis. Trocchia also held the professorship during the 2011-2012 academic year. The professorship is … Continue reading
Winning Entrepreneurship Club members Chris Carpentier, Mark Lombardi-Nelson, Lazar Anderson, Brown Charite and Kevin Mircovich are congratulated by Entrepreneurship Director Bill Jackson during Entrepreneurship Day.
Members of the USF St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Club at have won a prestigious national competition for the second year in a row. The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) Startup Simulation Challenge requires a team of students to take a new business and make the right decisions to out-perform nine other teams from across the country. The computer simulation took two months. … Continue reading