Area high school students had a chance to kickstart their business ideas at the IDEA Bank in July.
The Troy University IDEA Bank is known for helping TROY students kickstart their own businesses. Recently, high schoolers were given a chance to learn some of the techniques needed for building a business during the IDEA Bank’s Just Start Entrepreneurship Camp.
Hudson Stephens makes his pitch during the IDEA Bank Entrepreneurship Camp. (TROY photo/Joey Meredith)
“Students…
The Rural Food Venture Program, a transformative initiative among the Small Business Development Center at TROY, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and the Sorrell College of Business, has nurtured aspiring food entrepreneurs and ignited economic growth in communities across the Wiregrass.
The program ran in two phases – one focused on existing restaurants and food…
Sarah Snyder's Countryside Kennels was the winner of the IDEA Bank's student marketing competition during the spring semester.
What started out for Sarah Snyder as part-time high school job has gone to the dogs, literally.
The sophomore business major from Roeton, AL has created Countryside Kennels and was the winner of the IDEA Bank’s Student Entrepreneur Marketing Competition, which was open to IDEA Bank students during the spring semester.
Sarah Snyder, owner of…
The Sorrell College of Business partnered with UAB's Heersink Institute and others for the program.
Aspiring entrepreneurs from the Dothan area recently wrapped up a 6-week Dothan Community Entrepreneurship Bootcamp co-hosted by Troy University’s Sorrell College of Business and the University of Alabama-Birmingham’s Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation.
Lynne Firmin George, Director of TROY’s IDEA Bank, said the program morphed into a multi-faceted partnership with the adaptation of a program developed…
