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Don't let the year end without pitching your brill

Don't let the year end without pitching your brilliant business idea! The last Firestarter Pitch Competition of 2022 will be on December 6. The Firestarter Pitch Competition provides a low-pressure environment where students can pitch their early-stage startup ideas. Students walk through their concept for 5 minutes, followed by another 5 minutes of Q&A. Judges from the entrepreneurial and investor community provide feedback.

Contact Stacie Pawlicki, stacie.pawlicki@vanderbilt.edu, if you would like to pitch or judge in our December Firestarter🌟

We are excited to congratulate the winners of our

We are excited to congratulate the winners of our November Firestarter competition, Marc Nabhan & Mark Hilton, co-founders of Optomar Technologies, a medical device company to transform the future of metabolic health! Thank you to all of our participants for sharing their start-up ideas and to the judges for their helpful feedback💡

Another successful Voices of Entrepreneurship spea

Another successful Voices of Entrepreneurship speaker series featuring MKII Ventures founder, Glenn Clayton✅ Check out the link in our bio to watch the full fireside-chat with @staciepawlicki & to take a look at MKII Ventures website!

Join the C4E and guest moderator, Dean Eric Johnso

Join the C4E and guest moderator, Dean Eric Johnson, on November 10 for the Voices of Entrepreneurship speaker series featuring Brian Fox. Brian Fox is a highly successful entrepreneur in the fintech space. He founded Confirmation, the trusted global provider of digital confirmations, which sold to Thomson Reuters in 2019. He then served as VP of Strategic Partnerships at Thomson Reuters until 2021. He is recognized as the creator of electronic confirmations, and holds several patents on electronic audit confirmations.

Brian is an industry thought leader and frequent speaker on accounting and fraud issues. He has been named four times as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting,” is a five-time winner of the accounting profession’s “Top 40 Under 40 CPA in America,” and was named as an Entrepreneur of the Year in Nashville.

Prior to Confirmation, Brian worked in audit for Ernst & Young, and in mergers and acquisitions for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He is also one of the founders and a board member of Rivio.com, a joint-venture between the AICPA and Confirmation. He serves as a mentor in the Inc. 500 Military Entrepreneurs Mentor Program, Jumpstart Foundry, and the Nashville Entrepreneurship Center. Brian is on the advisory board for the Nashville Capital Network, and is a member of the AICPA and The Tennessee Society of CPAs.

Brian completed his Master of Business Administration at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Southern Methodist University.

Brian will join the C4E in person for a fireside-chat-style conversation with Dean Johnson to discuss entrepreneurship in accountancy.

Students, alumni, staff, and community members are welcome to attend. We will have an in-person and Zoom option and will provide a free lunch for those attending in person. The in-person event will be held in Owen Room 110 (Averbuch). Zoom link will be released later. Link to register is in our bio!

Friday reminder from Liz Rogers to take a step bac

Friday reminder from Liz Rogers to take a step back during the early stages of your start up to refocus! @anacrusissongs was founded on the basis of providing the niche of local alternative artist-writers in Nashville with assistance for publishing and licensing needs. Anacrusis is passionate about signing new Nashville-based non-country writer-producers to further build and grow the community of pop and alternative creators in Nashville. Anacrusis is also redefining the artist experience in music licensing in Nashville, actively working with artists on a personal level through showcase opportunities and artist development.

Check out the rest of this video through the link in our bio! 🙌🏻

Last week we hosted our first successful Firestart

The Voices of Entrepreneurship speaker series retu

The Voices of Entrepreneurship speaker series returns on October 26 with featured guest Glenn Clayton. Glenn is a Managing Partner of Mark Two Ventures (MKII), a venture studio that helps found and fund new startups alongside talented entrepreneurs in the Southeast. Prior to founding MKII, Glenn successfully launched and scaled several startups. His companies have employed hundreds of people, and he personally built and managed one of the largest software development teams in the state of Alabama. He raised over $35M in early-stage capital for his own companies, including one of Alabama’s largest Series A rounds of venture capital. He has successfully exited a company and scaled up another to profitability with over $40M in ARR.

Pre-COVID, Glenn spent a couple of years as part of the NYC startup community, developing close relationships with other founders, technologists, and venture capitalists. Seeing how access to a strong network of capital and talent improves the odds of startup success, Glenn decided to launch MKII to provide hands-on support for entrepreneurs in the South.

Glenn will join the C4E in person for a fireside-chat-style conversation to discuss entrepreneurship from both a founder's and funder's perspective.

Students, alumni, staff, and community members are welcome to attend. We will have an in-person and Zoom option and will provide a free lunch for those attending in person. Zoom link details will be released late.

Register with the link in our bio! 💡

What a fun night we had at the OVEC Fall Social on

What a fun night we had at the OVEC Fall Social on the BentoLiving Rooftop this past weekend✨

S/O to @owen_vec for this awesome event!

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