2021 Schulze School Annual Report

Schulze School of Entrepreneurship

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about us The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship serves as a vehicle for transformative education, unlocking the entrepreneurial potential of all St. Thomas students and providing them with the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to challenge the status quo, craft better solutions, and create enduring value in whatever field they choose to pursue. As such, the Schulze School serves as a hub of cross-university programs designed to equip all students to make a difference as innovators, whether in a startup or as part of a social impact venture, or as an intrapreneur within a corporate setting.

24%

Of St. Thomas undergrads took an Entrepreneurship course in 2020-21

$1.3M+ In scholarships awarded to Entrepreneurship majors

$427K+ Awarded through startup competitions

74 Different majors represented in Entrepreneurship classes

$200 MILLION In funding raised by over 200 new ventures started by students graduating in last 10 years

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Abenezer Ayana, Computer Science and Entrepreneurship (2021), developed his business BraillEazy through numerous Schulze School programs and services. BraillEazy’s innovative smartphone case allows the visually impaired to more easily learn and use Braille.

meeting the challenge

In a year that upended everything, the Schulze School did what we teach our students to do: we persevered, learned and adapted, challenged constraints, and crafted new solutions to meet the needs of our students, alumni and local business community. We re-imagined the classroom and co-curricular experience. We created new programming to support local startups and small and family businesses. We formed new partnerships in the community to combat racism and expand access to entrepreneurial opportunity. And along the way, we grew our academic programs by over 20%, expanded our co-curricular participation by 50%, and served a record number of entrepreneurs and small businesses.

It was a demanding year but one that made it clear our mission is more important than ever: to equip our students, alumni and community with the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to bring entrepreneurial insight, creativity, tenacity and problem solving to the challenges we face and to create positive impact in the world as entrepreneurs for the Common Good.

Laura Dunham Associate Dean, Jessica Cooley Senior Director

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I believe my ever-growing entrepreneurial story speaks volumes to the strong work being done at the Schulze School to create the next generation of impactful entrepreneurs….

year at a glance gALPHA

Schulze Innovation Scholars We welcome our newest cohort of 10

JULY

AUG

gBETA Pitch Night

Women Entrepreneurship Week

Our summer accelerator companies share their pitches

Silicon Valley legend Ann Winblad’s keynote is the highlight of a week of events

SEPT

Freshman Innovation Immersion

Fowler Workshops and Mentoring

First ever virtual freshman entrepreneurship

Students prepared for our first competition of the year

bootcamp

OCT

Fowler Business Concept Challenge Undergrads and grads compete for over $80,000 in scholarship awards in this entry-level venture competition

NOV

Our free, 4-week venture creation offered in partnership with gener8tor engages more than 60 students in entrepreneurship

DEC

Spring competition mentorship Preparing students to more deeply understand their ventures

St. Thomas Business Plan Competition

gBETA Lunch and Learns Community conversations around building and scaling a business

Students and alumni pitch, competing for nearly $40K in seed capital

eFest National Competition

Global Finals of the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge

25 teams from around the country compete for $215K in the largest undergrad competition in the US

Schulze School hosts students from 15 countries, competing for over $60K for their social impact ventures

JAN

FEB

MAR

Amplifying Voices: Black Women Entrepreneurs

Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge

Panel features learning and inspiration from four local women entrepreneurs of color

Campus finals for student social entrepreneurs

APR

MAY

Startup Internships Grants Students work for startups through summer grant program

JUN

inside the classroom ENROLLMENTS CONTINUE TO GROW

We believe that entrepreneurship is about “solving problems that matter to you and creating value for others.”

In that spirit, entrepreneurial education should be a journey of self-discovery and self-expansion that helps each student find their purpose, align their goals with their values, and develop the knowledge and skills Skills developed: necessary to drive innovation and value creation.

Design Thinking • Customer Discovery • Value Proposition Design • Business This learning comes to life in active, experiential and Modelling • Strategy • Finance multi-disciplinary classrooms tackling real-world • Marketing • Business Planning problems. Students learn from doing, and the doing • Lean Innovation creates energy, engagement, meaningful insight and real skill development.

ENTR CREDITS GENERATED % increase from 2017-2021

20% increase in 2020-21

3,705

8th

Largest major

3,094

2,140

285

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our faculty

STUDENT COMMENTS I thought this was a fantastic course! Currently, I’m planning on majoring in Financial Management, but this course is making me consider choosing a major or minor in Entrepreneurship.

EXCELLING AND INNOVATING

This was the best class I have ever taken. I truly think I have learned the most real-world, applicable skills in this class over any other class in high school or college so far.

4.6

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Outstanding teaching quality

This course was one I have looked forward to going to everyday.

I gained confidence as a woman in the business field, learning that I have a voice in a room talking about important decisions.

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*Average across 40 sections, on 1-5 scoring *Range 4 – 5 *4.6 average course and instructor ratings

Faculty published

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Dr. Steve Cole

Articles in leading scholarly journals

Dr. AnnMarie Thomas Joint appointment in Engineering and Entrepreneurship, won the Lego Prize, and $100,000, for her work on playful learning and creativity.

Head of Music Industry Studies and Recording Arts, and the first Schulze School Teaching Fellow, provided entrepreneurship modules in the College of Arts and Sciences to over 200 students across six sections and three disciplines, including Music, Biology and Strategic Communications.

Dr. Alec Johnson ARTICLES IN LEADING SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

Entrepreneurship Professor, serves each summer as a volunteer photography teacher with Honoring Our Veterans (HOV), a Jackson, WY nonprofit organization serving combat-wounded veterans.

schulze innovation scholars Competitions: SJU Open, Stofer Stensby Real Estate Competition, Travelers Actuarial Case Competition, New Business Concept Challenge, Global Social Innovation Challenge, Draper National Competition, St. Thomas Business Plan Competition, MN Cup Awards: Minne Inno’s Top Entrepreneurs under 25, Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, Beyond the Bag Challenge, NICA Distinguished Alumni Award Internships: Including McKinsey & Co., Boston Consulting Group, Best Buy, multiple startups

We welcomed our third cohort of Schulze Innovation Scholars in fall 2020. This one-of-a-kind experience provides a four-year, full tuition scholarship for 10 incoming freshmen each year and nurtures these students into becoming innovative, entrepreneurial leaders, and helps to launch their careers. Schulze Scholars receive a rich educational experience that includes individual mentoring, hands-on learning, and opportunities for networking and internships. Students graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to make the most of their talents, ambitions and entrepreneurial opportunities. We continue to maintain our advantage and to build national visibility and top Princeton Review ranking for this unique, high value program.

$1.3M+ In entrepreneurship scholarships

Schulze Innovation Scholars swept the Stofer Stensby Real Estate competition, winning 4th, 2nd and 1st place as well as best presenter and taking home over $16,000 in scholarship awards.

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SELECTED PROFILES

Grace Northamer (Cohort 2) Grace stays busy with activities including the Stanford University Innovation Fellows, Women in Business, as a semifinalist in the Fowler Business Concept Challenge, as vice president and conference chair of professional business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, and as chief accountability officer of the CEO Club. Grace has had internships at BETA MN and Best Buy and will be interning at Boston Consulting Group next summer.

Katie McDonald (Cohort 3) Katie was a finalist in the Fowler Business Concept Challenge as well as runner-up in the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge.

She is a member of the Women in Business club, Delta Sigma Pi, and the CEO Club, and serves as a mentor in the Business Undergraduate Mentorship Program.

She has an internship with Tommiepreneur alumna Martha Krueger at Giften Market and is actively working on her own venture.

Zane Bush (Cohort 1) In his three years in the program, Zane has participated in gener8tor’s gALPHA program and the Fowler Business Concept Challenge, and is founder and president of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO), a student club. He’s particularly interested in corporate innovation and is flexing his creative muscles as an intern on the procurement team at Best Buy.

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The Schulze Innovation Scholarship has allowed me to pursue world-class education while broadening the scope of what I thought was possible for me as an entrepreneur. Over the last year, I’ve been able to achieve multiple breakthroughs in our discussions, workshops and virtual site visits. Since coming into this program in 2018, the trajectory of my career has completely changed, with newfound confidence, inspiration and skillsets.

- Cole Hennen, Schulze Innovation Scholar, Cohort 1

creating impact outside of the classroom

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The Schulze School competitions changed the course of entrepreneurship within my life.

Not only did I learn invaluable knowledge about running a startup, but the connections I got because of the experience were so valuable. The way every mentor and peer cares about you is unlike any experience I’ve had. I found my love for the entrepreneurship program at St. Thomas and I am now a double major in entrepreneurship and marketing. I would dare say, altogether, this experience was just as valuable as a degree.

- Brianna Kirk, ‘23

student engagement is growing FOUR COMPETITIONS INCREASE IN RIGOR AND SCOPE ACROSS THE YEAR Fowler Business Concept Challenge Submissions increased 57% this year for this “entry-level” competition, our first of the academic year. The Business Concept Challenge brings undergraduate and graduate students together to compete for their share of more than $80,000 in scholarships.

Students move through six workshops and meet with mentors to hone their ideas, making this a premier educational opportunity for developing entrepreneurs across campus.

St. Thomas Business Plan Competition An alumni track was added in 2021 to this popular competition, in which teams are asked to dig deeper and provide a complete business plan for the new venture. One-on-one mentoring is provided in the month leading up to the competition, helping all students learn and grow as they prepare to compete for nearly $40,000 in seed capital.

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Subsidized summer internship with local startups

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eFest and the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Submissions and engagement remained high for our first-ever virtual eFest, the nation’s leading undergraduate entrepreneurship event, which convenes 25 teams of America’s top student entrepreneurs to compete in a three-day celebration of entrepreneurship. Increased marketing in 2021 attracted 22 new schools to submit to the competition.

The event awards more than $215,000 in startup cash.

It proves what we’re doing is important and people see that.

- Amy Helgeson ‘22

Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge This competition provides a chance for St. Thomas students to pitch social ventures that solve global challenges for seed funding. The top teams advance to the international competition, hosted by the Schulze School in June 2021. Over $60,000 was awarded to teams from 15 countries around the globe.

TOTAL PARTICIPATION IN CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMMING

394 Mentors

2020-21

649 435

2019-20 262

2018-19 2017-18

184 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

partnership with gener8tor

50+

SUPPORTING STUDENT AND ALUMNI VENTURES

Investor pitches

The nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor set up its gBETA and gALPHA programming on the University of St. Thomas campus in March 2019 to exclusively serve students and alumni bringing their ideas to reality and launching a business. There are two distinct programs:

gALPHA at St. Thomas is a free, four-week venture creation program that helps our entrepreneurially minded students and technologists create startup businesses. Participants can bring an existing startup idea/invention, receive a problem from a local company to solve, or create something from scratch. gBETA at St. Thomas is a free, seven-week accelerator for earlystage companies founded and led by St. Thomas students or alumni.

It offers a suite of opportunities to engage with mentors, coaches, investors and the like, for all students and alumni with an idea for a business. It requires no fees and takes no equity.

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1,000+ Campus outreach

Startups 17 gBETA/27 gALPHA

$359K Raised by gBETA St. Thomas alumni in first two years of program

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Employees of gBETA St. Thomas alumni ventures

funding students and alumni ventures THE SCHULZE INNOVATION FUND

THE SCHULZE PRE-SEED GRANT PROGRAM

The Schulze Innovation Fund has invested more than $500,000 into eight Tommie alumni businesses, providing early-stage capital, mentoring and connections, leading to company growth and often additional investments.

Pelvital USA has 14 patents and two successful clinical trials and is FDA-cleared for its device that treats stress urinary incontinence.

The Schulze Pre-Seed Grant program was launched in 2020 to accelerate entrepreneurial ventures and ideas of St. Thomas students and alumni. These non-dilutive grants are up to $10,000 per venture.

Bizzy Coffee has grown to 20 FTEs, is an Amazon bestseller and distributes in over 1,300 grocery stores. Year over year net sales doubled last year, totaling $4.3 million.

Clinician Nexus counts Hospital Corporation of America, the largest hospital and clinic owner in the country, Fairview, Hennepin Healthcare and Children’s Minnesota as customers.

It has 8 FTEs with a $490,000 ARR.

Geneticure successfully completed three trials using its solution for hypertension, and a separate pilot trial with Medtronic. The company signed an exclusive contract with Medtronic to continue this study.

GoVugo completed a pilot with Via, the third largest rideshare service that operates on a fleet-based model, in the first quarter. Vugo has also contracted with Disney to sell advertising.

BetterYou has grown recurring revenue commitments every month since launching, more than tripling monthly recurring revenue since November 2019 to November 2020, and showing double-digit growth in December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021.

In addition to the capital, ventures receive mentoring assistance and are given the opportunity to apply for equity investment from the Schulze Innovation Fund.

Newest Investments: Sparrow Marketing enables business owners to connect internal marketing and sales tools to a single platform to quickly obtain a snapshot of business performance. Users can create data charts, combine data across platforms, and easily generate dashboards or presentations which can be shared with stakeholders.

Willa’s creates deliciously creamy plant milks using whole, organic ingredients for the dairy-free consumer. Willa’s Plant Milks are revolutionary in their nutrition-packed simplicity, delicious consistency, and no-waste manufacturing process, making them the healthiest and most sustainable options available.

FOUR EARLY-STAGE VENTURES HAVE BEEN AWARDED A GRANT SINCE ITS INCEPTION: Campus Bites: an on-campus food delivery service One Deep Breath: an app to decrease anxiety, improve focus and upgrade your health Luminary Lighting: a manufacturer that sells coded RGB LED light stripes My Nashipai: a company that sells socially conscious jewelry designed and assembled by Maasai women in the Congo

growing more student and alumni ventures

ALUMNI STARTUP FUNDING (UNDERGRADS ONLY)*

$73,015,877

$35,345,000

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Martha (McCarthy) Krueger, ENTR ’11, is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded her first venture in college after participating in the inaugural Fowler Business Concept Challenge. She teamed up with a classmate to launch The Social Lights, using a startup office in Schulze Hall during its launch. The agency turned into one of the market leaders guiding social media for some of the world’s largest brands.

After an eight-year run of success, she went out on her own again, back to ecommerce, launching Giften Market, a company that takes the stress out of gift buying for busy professionals by sourcing unique and thoughtful products from emerging and underrepresented entrepreneurs.

$11,618,500

2018

2019

$6,809,077

2020

Graduated in previous 5 years Graduated in previous 10 years

# OF ALUMNI STARTUPS (UNDERGRADS ONLY)*

Martha joined gBETA St. Thomas’s 2020 cohort within months of launching. She partnered with a third-party logistics company she met through gBETA’s Mentor Swarm and tested her concept with gener8tor’s Project North team to launch and test her corporate giving strategy.

Giften Market saw 213% year-over-year revenue growth, with a single order of almost $60,000! Martha hired three Tommie interns, including one through the Summer Entrepreneurial Internship program. She raised $50,000 from friends and family to scale inventory through the 2020 holidays. In December 2020, Giften Market grew 387%, shipping over 1,000 gift boxes.

$390,000

$144,500

Graduated in previous 5 years Graduated in previous 10 years

131

118

41 2018

152

42 2019

58

2020

engaging the community FAMILY BUSINESS CENTER In its 30 years, the Family Business Center has become the hub of family business education and connection in Minnesota and beyond. Despite COVID constraints, a thoughtful use of Zoom created connections in new, deeper ways.

In 2020-21, the Family Business Center and Small Business Development Center produced 12 successful Covid-related webinars that provided expert guidance to help companies navigate the pandemic economy. More than 1,200 people tuned in to hear about how to apply for disaster relief loans, pivot their strategies, manage their cash flow, and support remote workers, among other topics.

LegalCORPS In 2020-21, LegalCORPS served 580 clients with brief legal advice and full legal representation and over 400 more with educational presentations. This includes 11 St. Thomas clients, ranging from consultations to full legal representation. LegalCORPS matched three students to pro bono services to submit provisional patent applications.

Two students who partnered on an invention received full representation with an attorney at Fish & Richardson, filing a provisional patent application. The students received full representation from a LegalCORPS program attorney to draft and file their documents forming a C-corp. These students are now presenting to investors, applying for SBIR grants, and looking for manufacturing options, on top of finishing their degrees. The students competed and won second place at the 2020 Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge for seed funding.

In addition to its standard legal support through transactional business law services, the Entrepreneurs of Color Program, the Inventors Assistance Program, and its nonprofit program, LegalCORPS responded strongly to support businesses through the pandemic and civil unrest.

Engaging use of Zoom also opened up the center to families for whom travel had previously been a barrier.

More than 530 individuals from over 130 family businesses attended Family Business Breakfast Series events, including families from California, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.

The Family Business Center focused outreach and connection on diverse communities who haven’t previously engaged with St. Thomas or the center. Planning and connections continue in earnest to make sure the Family Business Center services will be accessible for all.

The center continues to get recognition in the local and national community for its support of successful family businesses. In 2020, four of the five Minnesota Family Business Award honorees came from Family Business Center members. In a forthcoming issue of Family Business Magazine, three center members will be recognized as “Next Gens to Watch,” representing more than 10 percent of the national awardees, all business leaders under 35 years old.

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) increased its number of clients by 55 percent in 2020, as business owners and startups grappled with the pandemic economy and impacts from civil unrest.

The center helped small businesses secure more than $1.3 million in emergency funding through the CARES Act and its Payment Protection Program and the expanded Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) program.

Additionally, the center almost doubled the number of annual startups it supports, moving from 136 to 256 in 2020.

The SBDC expanded its efforts to support entrepreneurs and small business owners from under-represented communities. BIPOC business owners served grew to 36% of all clients, up from 32% the previous year. We expect the number of BIPOC clients to increase through a new partnership with the African Development Center, similar to an ongoing contract with MEDA. Women continue to account for 48% of clients.

In 2020-21, the SBDC provided consulting services to 94 St. Thomas students and 69 alumni.

Opened a crisis intake line to assist small business owners in communities hardest hit by the civil unrest.

Beyond advice by phone, LegalCORPS provided 31 clients who were directly impacted by the civil unrest with full legal representation.

Held outreach events on Lake Street and in North Minneapolis and provided “pop-up” brief advice clinics in the hard-hit areas along Lake Street, including former tenants of the Ivy Arts Building and Mercado Central.

Offered a series of webinars for clients and attorneys, including a session on contracts and bankruptcy, for the Schulze School’s Business Support Series.

Partnered with pro bono organizations to provide over 200 new legal service kiosks within communities across the state.

in the news

Schulze Innovation Scholar Makes a Splash with Food Delivery

gBETA St. Thomas Announces Summer 2020 Cohort

Tommie Entrepreneur Wins National Competition for Women Entrepreneurs

Tommie Social Entrepreneur Gets National Exposure After Facebook Ad Ban

Dylan Dierking and his best friend Graham DeVore came up with Foodski, a food delivery business providing hungry White Bear Lake boaters tasty eats from nearby restaurants via Jet Ski. Foodski’s motto is “You Buy – We Fly.” Dierking said they came up with the concept while brainstorming ideas they were passionate about.

Top-ranked start-up accelerator gener8tor announced August 19, 2020 the participants selected for its gBETA St. Thomas summer 2020 cohort. The six start-ups each are affiliated with the University of St. Thomas and have business models ranging from SaaS to online marketplace. The companies include curated gift boxes for any gift-giving occasion and marketing software.

In early August, Amy Helgeson, a Schulze School of Entrepreneurship junior and Schulze Innovation Scholar, and her business partner, Hufsa Ahmed, tied for first place in the Social Impact Product track of the Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs. The team won $7,500 in seed capital for their business venture Solupal, an eco-friendly alternative to traditional plastic bags that is both biodegradable and water-soluble.

Amid what should be his busiest season, entrepreneur Mohamed Malim encountered an obstacle when the Facebook ads his small business depends on were pulled abruptly as part of the social media platform’s ban on political advertising surrounding the U.S. election.From his seemingly endless supply of tenacity, the 2018 St. Thomas graduate earned himself a silver lining: national exposure in the New York Times.

Fowler Business Concept Challenge Awards to Quadruple

Princeton Review: St. Thomas Tops MN Entrepreneurship Programs

Fowler Business Concept Challenge Finalists Pay It Forward

St. Thomas is the only Minnesota school to make this year’s Princeton Review list of top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.

The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship advanced two spots – to No. 33 from No. 35 – in the latest annual rankings released today. The updated rankings also placed the Schulze School among the nation’s top three Catholic universities and colleges for students studying entrepreneurship.

“I’m originally from a small country in Africa called Ghana. We have a saying. It’s called ‘Sankofa’ and it means to go back in your past and pull that experience with you or bring it forward,” said Ebenezer Dadson ’21, who brought home a scholarship worth $15,000 for first prize in the social venture track of the 2020 Fowler Business Concept Challenge.

Dadson, who is pursuing his master’s degree in electrical engineering, won the award for Auris AI, innovative stethoscopes with the potential to save millions of lives.

Schulze Competition Passes $1 Million in Prize Money for Student Entrepreneurs

With submissions due by 11:59 p.m. on October 26, the annual Fowler Business Concept Challenge is upon us, and this year the stakes are significantly higher. Last year, eight teams made the finals and received scholarships. This year, up to 32 teams will receive scholarships of at least $1,000 per team, with finalists receiving up to $15,000. For those with an innovative idea for a new business or social venture, this entrepreneurship competition is an opportunity to take the first step toward making it a reality and possibly winning a scholarship.

As the economy recovers from the pandemic, entrepreneurs will play a key role. One of the nation’s largest undergraduate business pitch competitions, the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge has a strong track record of supporting entrepreneurs.

Since the University of St. Thomas-hosted competition started in 2017, the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge has awarded more than $1 million in prize money.

Visit to the Bahamas Inspires Housing Crisis Solution Sophomores Xander Smaby and Delila Gonyea were unbeatable in the recent Stofer/ Stensby Student Scholarship Competition, with their ECON Habitat Project taking first place. Smaby found inspiration for the project while visiting the seaside town of Marsh Harbour in the Bahama Islands a few years ago. What many would call waste, Smaby called potential as he envisioned how shipping containers left ashore could be transformed to help solve the low-income housing crisis in his Minnesota community.

Two St. Thomas Teams Advance to Fowler GSIC Global Finals Seven St. Thomas students, representing two teams, are advancing to the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge (Fowler GSIC) Global Finals after successfully competing in the second annual Fowler GSIC held at St. Thomas in April. To compete in Fowler GSIC, student teams identify a social or environmental problem of their choice, then propose an innovative solution to their chosen problem. The two top St. Thomas teams, Auris AI and LABLE, both sought to empower individuals – clinicians and people living with disabilities, respectively.

St. Thomas Business Plan Competition Incorporates Alumni in 2021 The St. Thomas Business Plan Competition invited another set of competitors to its virtual event this year. New to the 2021 competition are alumni who graduated within the past five years. Students competed in one of two tracks – undergraduate or graduate student/ recent alumni. Up-and-coming entrepreneurs competed for a total of $38,000 in cash prizes, with the top winners walking away with $10,000 at the February 19 finals.

SUPPORTERS OF THE SCHULZE SCHOOL Thank you to our generous donors, judges, reviewers and mentors! Without your generous support, the work of the Schulze School would not be possible. We are grateful for the work you do to foster the entrepreneurial spirit at the University of St. Thomas.

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Our vision:

A globally recognized leader in entrepreneurial education, equipping students to make a difference as innovators.