Entrepreneur Job Description
Entrepreneur Duties & Responsibilities
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Entrepreneur Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Entrepreneur
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ARM, TEC
Education for Entrepreneur
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the entrepreneur job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, MBA, Education, Engineering, Communication, Technology, Marketing, Graduate, Management, Teaching
Skills for Entrepreneur
Desired skills for entrepreneur include:
Desired experience for entrepreneur includes:
Entrepreneur Examples
Entrepreneur Job Description
- Be the General Manager of one of our products, and run it as though you were the president of your own mini-business
- Define requirements and objectives for new features and projects
- Work in cross functional teams across APC to analyze and communicate analytics and profitability to team members, management
- Design and perform ad hoc financial/economic analysis for new marketing products and services, partnership opportunities, and other potential ventures
- Manage Excel spreadsheet with all student businesses
- Support in the ideation process for students interested in starting a business
- Support Falcone Center staff at various events and programs
- Represent the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and Couri Hatchery in classrooms across campus
- Work strategically with other departments/programs on campus providing entrepreneurial resources for students
- Other tasks at the discretion of the Executive Director of the Falcone Center and the Chair of the EEE Department
- Excellent technical and business acumen to deliver maximum value to our customers
- Demonstrated experience in facilitating field research, history of successfully obtaining or capacity to obtain extramural funding
- Experience as a real-world entrepreneur
- Experience with the administrative duties of courses including preparing materials, uploading materials, working with faculty to set up webpages, or similar relevant experience
- Existing network of contacts in the business, technology, and/or venture community in NY
- Experience making venture investments
Entrepreneur Job Description
- Lead a multidisciplinary team of developers, designers and analysts
- Plan product roadmaps and execute on them
- Innovate, spec and prioritize products and features
- Work with the Coordinator of Entrepreneurship Programs and High School Enrichment Activities to create programmatic opportunities on and off campus and to assist with managing a physical “start-up” space designed for collaboration and idea development
- Manage an education program to train university researchers in foundational principles of technology commercialization
- Ensure the program includes both conceptual and applied/experiential learning
- Recruit and maintains relationships with university and community speakers and teachers who develop and deliver content
- Develop online content that is easily accessible and delivers pre-requisite subject matter
- Help develop promotional material and events, and execute a campus-wide communication strategy to prospective participants
- Engage community partners and university stakeholders to secure incentives for participants
- Startup company CEO or Senior Management experience
- Startup company CEO or Senior Management experience in companies that successfully took an early stage company through product development to commercial sales
- Startup company CEO or Senior Management experience in a company that has delivered a successful exit to investors (IPO or M&A)
- 5 plus years of experience in life science or a related industry including business development responsibility
- Experience as a licensor or licensee of university technology
- Excellent oral and written communication skills the ability to work effectively with Deans, faculty, administrators, and external constituents
Entrepreneur Job Description
- Design and implement a thorough participant feedback system, and integrate participant feedback into future program iterations
- Coordinate the timing of the program with other commercialization and entrepreneurship events on campus
- Strong ability to teach and inspire your audience
- Dynamic marketing and outreach skills to attract program participants
- Collaborative and relational style that can build strong ties inside and outside the university
- Exceptionally strong leadership and networking skills
- Proficient project manager with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Sensitivity to and appreciation of cultural, political and geographical differences, with ability to work well with faculty, staff and students from around the world
- Excellent opportunity and experience on the buy-side (investment) side of the industry, while remaining within a Global Investment Bank with the large network of opportunities
- The chance to develop a deep analysis skillset through performing complex pre-IPO valuations, financial modelling, competitive strategy analysis, credit, capital structure, financial returns and multi-tracked and multi-scenario investment exit analyses
- Demonstrated experience as an entrepreneur in startup companies or senior executive in high growth corporations
- Extensive relevant work experience that can be drawn upon in advising and mentoring early-stage companies
- Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in understanding the key attributes of technologies, products, markets and teams that lead to successful startup companies
- College degree in relevant discipline
- MBA or experience in entrepreneurial management roles or senior roles in growth companies
- Existing network of contacts in the business, technology, and/or sustainability community
Entrepreneur Job Description
- A knowledge of different sources of finance, both internally and externally
- A strong communication environment whereby you will prepare and present materials such as investment memorandums and presentations for our internal Risk and Investment Committees at very senior levels
- Work closely with the seven current portfolio companies spanning China, India and Southeast Asia
- 2 or more years of experience within Private Equity and/or Corporate Finance in Investment Banking
- Customer validation and early buy-in of solutions
- Facilitating and running Sprints together with the Domain and Incubation teams
- Coach the teams in Agile and Sprint methodology and stay up-to-date on developments in this area
- Developing/Building solutions in the form of minimum viable products, proto- or pre-prototypes
- Develop and maintain a strong network of within the start-up industry
- Teaching (50% of workload)
- Experience with licensing and technical transfer functions
- Experience in raising private capital
- 10 plus years of experience in a related industry including business development responsibility
- Previous experience within higher education preferred
- Well-developed interpersonal skills necessary to deal with staff, faculty, students and alumni
- High energy level and attention to detail
Entrepreneur Job Description
- Conducting primary and secondary design research to address non-traditional design business problems
- Designing assets (e.g., products, services, prototypes – virtual and physical) for innovation team
- Building and managing end-to-end project plans, including identification of key tasks and tracking of ownership, timelines, and milestones
- Developing and managing tools and templates to coordinate and track key Innovation team activities
- Organizing, scheduling, and preparing materials for design thinking workshops
- Leading independent project activities, with guidance from supervisor, as appropriate
- Engaging with Innovation team members in fueling new ways of thinking and doing across the organization
- That you are currenlty following a Bachelor or Master program on Industrial Design, Strategic Design, Communication and Multimedia Design or a related topic
- Passion about research
- Interest or experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Strong understanding of OO design and development principles
- Business professional attitude a must – both within the office and when speaking with clients
- Entrepreneur who previously founded startup companies
- Strong ability translating opportunities and needs into products and features
- Natural Leader who can motivate and execute
- Savvy learner, avid listener, articulated communicator and presenter