Montana State University business students raise more than $5,200 for local non-profits through three-week Entreprentice Challenge

"A benefit of this project is that students have an opportunity to put their classroom learning into practice right from the start of the semester," Rosso said. "But I think it is equally important that students experience how their entrepreneurialism can impact their communities in tangible ways. This gives us the opportunity to discuss how entrepreneurs can do good while doing well, and vice versa."

Teams of Montana State University business students turned $25 each into more than $5,200 in just three weeks, and the students then donated those funds to three local non-profit organizations of their choice this fall.

The students were participating in the "Entreprentice Challenge," part of an upper-division class on entrepreneurship in the MSU Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship. As part of the course – taught by management professor Brent Rosso – student teams were given $25 in start-up capital and asked to launch real businesses that were as profitable and impactful as possible in just three weeks. Rosso challenged the students to think beyond their perceived constraints and act entrepreneurially to maximize their impact.

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