Lewis & Clark Winterim students learn from Portland’s entrepreneurial community
Our Center for Entrepreneurship Winterim 2016 participants were blown away by what they managed to accomplish in five days. Starting from scratch, they learned from local business experts including Abel Navarrete, Columbia Sportswear’s Senior Director of Product Compliance, Michelle Lantow, CFO of New Seasons Markets, and Impact Investing visionary Jed Emerson ’81.
Groups of three students focused on developing innovations in health, environment and consumer products. The intensive week ended with a Friday afternoon pitch challenge during which each group presented their venture to venture investment professionals including Jim Huston, Founder and Managing Director of the Portland Seed Fund, Linda Weston, the Executive Director of Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, Starla Goff from the Paulson Investment Company, serial entrepreneur Steve Hopkins, Cliff Johnson, co-founder and CDO of Vacasa, and entrepreneur and angel investor Justin Curzi.
Winterim provides an opportunity for Lewis & Clark students to learn from, work with and present to members of Portland’s vibrant entrepreneurial community. The entrepreneurial volunteers love to visit campus, engage with our students and help them shape their education and envision their futures. And that is what happens when 22 Lewis & Clark undergraduates spend an intensive week with a host of expert volunteers at the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Winterim—it’s the practical application of the liberal arts!
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The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership is located in room 344 of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 71
email entrepreneurship@lclark.edu
Brian Detweiler-Bedell
Director
Professor of Psychology
Office hours Tu/We 11:30-12:30
bedell@lclark.edu503-768-7651
Chrys Hutchings
Associate Director
Office Hours Tu/We 1pm-3pm
chryshutchings@lclark.edu503-768-7683
Catarina Hunter
Associate Director of Operations
Office Hours
chunter@lclark.edu503-768-8683
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 71
Portland OR 97219