BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology

Feb 25 2009

Brigham Young University Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology

Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management today announced the merger of the Rollins Center for eBusiness with the Center for Entrepreneurship to create the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.

Since last fall, I’ve been serving on the advisory board with 17 others for the Rollins Center for eBusiness. I’m so excited about this new combined center, especially as I helped an ad hoc committee put together recommendations on how to make this merger work, and how the new center can focus on helping BYU students use technology and entrepreneurship to change the world by solving some big problems.

I’ll be joining the new center’s 15 person advisory board, made up of individuals from a broad base of departments from BYU, part from the Center for Entrepreneurship, and part of us from the Rollins center board, to help this merger be successful and do great things.

If you have any thoughts or ideas about how we can accomplish this, by all means, let me know. It’s exciting news and a great development for BYU. I know my entrepreneurial roots started at BYU, and all my first formal and informal advisors were from connections and departments and centers on campus, so this is cool beans. And since I did graduate from BYU, and they let me beg my way back in after I’d dropped out for a couple years, and gave me a degree 12 years after I started, figure least I can do is return the favor for all the help I got from them. ;)

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  • http://angrygeorgian.blogspot.com/ Angry Georgian

    The only merger advice I have is what I learned from my step father. His company merged with another in South Carolina several years ago, essentially doubling the size of his operations. To make it smooth and make everyone happy, one major stipulation was that absolutely no one from either company would lose their job. Here they, are almost a decade later and still growing.

  • http://angrygeorgian.blogspot.com/ Angry Georgian

    The only merger advice I have is what I learned from my step father. His company merged with another in South Carolina several years ago, essentially doubling the size of his operations. To make it smooth and make everyone happy, one major stipulation was that absolutely no one from either company would lose their job. Here they, are almost a decade later and still growing.

  • http://coworkutah.com/ Jack Hadley

    This new center sounds really cool. I am looking forward to learning more about it. Are you still in India (I think it was India?). We never had a chance to talk about how Social Hat could help with your launch. Let me know when you get back in the country.

  • http://coworkutah.com/ Jack Hadley

    This new center sounds really cool. I am looking forward to learning more about it. Are you still in India (I think it was India?). We never had a chance to talk about how Social Hat could help with your launch. Let me know when you get back in the country.

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