This week is the exciting kickoff for the Tufts Venture Accelerator! The Tufts Venture Accelerator is a summer accelerator that provides structure, accountability, educational experiences and more that helps entrepreneurs make rapid progress throughout the summer.
Accelerator participants as well as local entrepreneurial alumni will be celebrating in-person at a happy hour event tonight at Tamper Cafe.
Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts Launches new website!
We are excited to announce the launch of a new website! Please take a minute to bookmark our new site at derbyecenter.tufts.edu to keep you up to date with our events and happenings at DEC.
For the first time in two years, Derby Entrepreneurship Center was able to go on the road! On May 17, 2022, we hosted an outdoor event for NYC based students and alumni at the Mondrian Terrace in the hip NoMad neighborhood. Over 50 participants were at the event. The energy was amazing and our alumni were thrilled to reconnect with old friends and make new connections. We will definitely do this again!
Tufts Alumni Mingle in San Francisco
Derby Entrepreneurship Center went to the West Coast! On May 24, we hosted an event for alumni who are based in the San Francisco Bay area at 111 Minna Gallery, an incredibly cool venue where we not only connected with Tufts diaspora, but we met the artist who created the paintings in the gallery itself. Fun fact: We were competing with a Warriors Game and we still got an amazing turnout!
We are working on a schedule for DEC to join in these events on a regular basis. Stay tuned!
Alumni Weekends
We welcomed our alumni back on campus over two weekends - June 3-4 and June 10-11. Alumni are happy to hear that the entrepreneurial spirit is going strong on campus!
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Academic Courses and Programs
New undergraduate courses!
Tufts Gordon Institute and Derby Entrepreneurship Center are introducing six new 2-credit courses covering topics that students have been asking for, including Financial Literacy, Leadership, Communications and more. These courses are offered under the new "TGI" prefix and will be jointly offered under the ENT193.20 series of course numbers.These new courses can be applied towards elective credits for the reimagined ENT Minor.
We still have room in some of our Fall courses - check it out!
ENT161.01 "Consumer Product Ventures"(Instructor:Josh Wiesman)This course covers the new venture creation process with a focus on the consumer product sector.
ENT193.01 "Introduction to Making" (Instructors:Mac CameronandElaine Chen): Develop an entrepreneurial spirit by learning to make rapid prototypes of physical products.
ENT193.02 "Paths to Entrepreneurship" (Instructors:Phillip EllisonandAlex Ocampo): A half-semester exploration of non-traditional entrepreneurial pathways.
ENT193.04 "Nonprofits, Philanthropy and Impact" (Instructor: Usha Pasi), last offered in Spring 2022, is now offered in the Fall.
TEN Event in NYC - June 16, 2022: "You 2.0: Reinvigorate your Professional Goals"
You are invited to a professional celebration that marks an exodus from the dark ages of COVID, when a month felt like a decade. It’s time to reboot and receive support for one next step in your career.
TEN Event in Boston - June 21, 2022: "Boston Summer Kickoff"
Come kick off summer with the Boston chapter of the Tufts Entrepreneurial Network (TEN) at Remnant Brewery in Somerville! Now easily accessible with the new Union Square stop on the Green Line train.
Connecting top agency, military, investment and industry leadership with the world's best technologies. Don't miss over $250,000 in innovation prizes and over $50 billion in prototype contracting authority!
