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Past Events

Summer Schedule

Fri 7/23-7/24 Program for Entrepreneurs Kickoff Event


Wed 8/4 DukeGEN Happy Hour in the Research Triangle

  • Part of the multi-city DukeGEN Networking Events
  • Location: MEZ - tentative
  • Audience: Duke alumni. And students and postdocs that are here this summer.

Thurs 8/12 Entrepreneurship Info Session for Postdocs

Do you have an idea that could be translated to industry? Are you interested in entrepreneurship? Want to learn more about what it's like to work for a small start-up? Then please join Howie Rhee, Managing Director of the Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and advisor for the Duke Start-Up Challenge, for this breakfast discussion. Howie connects the Center for Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial community both locally and globally, and is interested in getting more postdocs involved in entrepreneurship, because postdocs are hands-on researchers with innovative and marketable ideas.

Whether you have a start-up idea, want to learn more about working for a small company, or just want to learn more about entrepreneurship in general, please join us! Bagels and coffee provided.

(Note: This event was rescheduled from an earlier date.)


Thurs 9/2 Program for Entrepreneurs Idea Pitch Event

  • Hear from student teams as they pitch their startup ideas to try to enter Duke's Program for Entrepreneurs
  • 4-7pm, HCA Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
  • Followed by an Information Session for Undergraduates and Graduate Students, 7-8pm
  • More information can be found here
  • Audience: For any student

Fall Semester Schedule


Mon 8/30 - Undergraduate Classes Begin

Fri 9/3 Activities Fair for Undergraduates

  • Meet the members of the Duke Start-Up Challenge organizing committee
  • Location: East Campus Lawn
Mon 9/6 - Fuqua Classes Begin

Schedule for Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series & Duke Start-Up Challenge Pitch Mixers & Practice Rounds

  • 6pm-6:30pm - Networking and Food
  • 6:30pm - Duke Start-Up Challenge Mixer or Practice Round begins
  • 7:00pm - Speaker
  • 8:00pm - End of Event

Thurs 9/9 "How to Start a Company - The Story of GrassRoots Bio" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

  • Speaker - Doug Eisner '07, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, GrassRoots Biotechnology
  • And learn more about the Duke Start-Up Challenge at this event
  • Location: Fuqua
  • Audience: Open to all students

Tues 9/14 Duke Start-Up Challenge Information Session & Case Competition for Undergraduates


Wed 9/15 Apply for the DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event in New York City

  • Apply to pitch to Duke angel investors in New York City on October 19th
    DukeGEN is hosting an event for Duke founders of "consumer internet" & "online media" ventures to present their business concepts to a panel of sophisticated angel investors and venture capitalists. 
    This event will be held on Tuesday, October 19th from 6:30-9:00pm in New York City at Dogpatch Labs.
  • See details here.


Thurs 9/16 "How to Start a Company - The Story of Shoeboxed.com" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

Thurs 9/23 "Introduction to Venture Capital"  & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

Wed 9/29 2010 Entrepreneurship Symposium: Entrepreneurship is Everywhere, hosted by the EVCC

Thurs 9/30 "Intro to Entrepreneurial Law" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

Tues 10/5 - "More Like Us: Human-Centric Computing", part of the Distinguished Speaker Series at the Fuqua School of Business

  • Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft Corporation
  • 4pm in Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
  • Drawing from his rich history of building technology-related startups, service as Microsoft’s Technology-policy liaison to the U.S. and foreign governments, and experiences as member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Mr. Mundie will discuss new trends in technology and showcase opportunities for human-scale interaction with computers. We are especially privileged to have Mr. Mundie, who is responsible for Microsoft’s long-term technology strategy and its global computer-science research organization, join us and share his insights. 
  • No RSVP necessary

Tues 10/5 - "Launch Day" 

Thurs 10/7 "How to Start a Company - The Story of ReverbNation" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

  • Speaker - Jed Carlson '05, Co-founder and COO of eMinor, Inc (ReverbNation.com)
  • And learn more about the Duke Start-Up Challenge at this event
  • Location: Fuqua
  • Audience: Any student
Fri 10/8-10/13 - Undergraduate Fall Break

Deadline: Fill out the Intent to Compete form by 10/15 for a free copy of Business Plan Pro

Tues 10/19 "DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event in New York City at Dogpatch Labs


Wed 10/20 "From Bench to Business:  The Story of Precision Biosciences" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

  • Speaker - Derek Jantz, CTO of Precision Biosciences and former Ruth R. Kirschstein Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the Duke University Medical Center.
  • 4pm - Speaker
  • 5pm - Networking Event at Twinnie's
  • Location: Schiciano Auditorium A, Fitzpatrick/CIEMAS
  • Audience: Any student
  • No RSVP required

Thurs 10/21 "Social Entrepreneurship Info Session" for Duke Undergraduates

  • The Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative (ELI) will host an open Social Entrepreneurship information session for Duke undergraduates.  Duke Professors Christopher Gergen(ELI), Tony Brown(ELI) and Carl Nordgren(Markets & Management) will speak to the various opportunities for undergraduates to engage in Social Entrepreneurship, either through academic or extracurricular avenues.  We will also be joined by Stephanie Potter from the Ashoka Foundation who will discuss Duke’s recent decision to join the Ashoka Changemaker Campus Consortium, in addition to various Duke student organizations supporting entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Come learn and discuss what you’d like to see happen with Social Entrepreneurship at Duke. 
  • Pizza will be provided for all who attend. 
  • Please RSVP to Liz Linzer at elizabeth.linzer@duke.edu
  • 5:30-7pm
  • West Campus- McClendon Tower 5th Floor
  • Audience: Undergraduates

Thurs 10/21 "Will It Launch?" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session

Thursday 10/21-27 - Fuqua Fall Break

Fri 10/22 "Idea Generation Session"

  • Are you someone who does not have a business idea but wants to come up with one. Don't worry we are here to help you do just that.
  • DELV's 1st idea generation session for the year will take place this coming Friday, 7:00PM (22nd October) in Social Sciences 311. We have improved and recalculated the structure of the session since last year to increase your marginal utility per unit time. In other words, less down time, more brainstorming and idea assessment! To that end, we have decided to limit participation to a maximum of 20 participants, who are looking to join an undergraduate start-up team or want to come up with their own business concept.
  • Location: Social Sciences 311
  • 7pm
  • Audience: Undergraduates

Wed 10/27 "How to Run a Multi-Million Dollar Company While You're A Student" with Douglas Hanna '13 & "Life Entrepreneurs" with Christopher Gergen

  • 6:30pm Food and Networking
  • 7:00 Speaker: "How to Run a Multi-Million Dollar Company While You're A Student" - sophomore Douglas Hanna '13, CEO of A Small Orange, a multi-million dollar web hosting company
  • 7:45 Speaker: "Life Entrerepreneurs" - Christopher Gergen '93, ELI Director and Visiting Lecturer
  • Location: Von Canon Rooms, Bryan Center
  • Audience: Any student
  • RSVP on Facebook

Thurs 10/28 "How to Start a Company - Starting a non-tech business" & Duke Start-Up Challenge Info Session



Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition


Register to participate by Monday 11/1 at 5pm ET

  • The Elevator Pitch Competition runs during November. Any Duke student (undergrad or grad), or post-doc can participate. 
  • Each team gets one minute to pitch and can have powerpoint slides (but no props)
  • Each night there are different tracks that you can compete in. Winners will be selected from each track and will compete in the Finals on 11/12
  • More details at www.dukestartupchallenge.org
  • Register to compete

Duke Start-Up Challenge Opening Rounds

Wed 11/3 Women-led Startups Track

Wed 11/3 Social Enterprise Track

  • Location: Leaman Classroom - tentative

Wed 11/3 Duke's Entrepreneurial Symposium: Creativity After College


  • Hosted by The Duke Entrepreneur, DSG, and SOFC
  • 6-8pm
  • Von Canon Rooms, Bryan Center
  • RSVP on Facebook

Thurs 11/4 Undergraduate-led Startups Track

  • Location: Bryan Center, Von Canon Rooms - tentative

Mon 11/8 Meet Brad Feld and David Cohen of TechStars


  • Come hear from the co-founders of TechStars, one of the top incubators in the country.
  • 9:00-10:15am
  • Location: Fuqua School of Business (classroom TBD)
  • RSVP on Facebook

Tues 11/9 Products & Services Track

  • Location: Lilly Classroom - tentative

Tues 11/9 IT & Media Track

  • Location: Leaman Classroom - tentative

Wed 11/10 Energy & Environment Track

  • Location: CIEMAS A - tentative

Wed 11/10 Healthcare and Life Science Track

  • Location: CIEMAS B - tentative

Fri 11/12 Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Finals



Thurs 11/18 5th Multi-City DukeGEN Networking Event