Finding the new frontier entrepreneurship at the university of montana

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I gave the following speech today as part of the University of Montana’s Innovation and Imagination Day session on Entrepreneurship. I was invited to represent the student point of view as president of the UM Entrepreneurship Club.

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Finding the

New Frontier

The University of Montana Entrepreneurship Club

Christina Henderson

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to the U.S. Congress

“The real

credit…should be given to my wife Maureen…I am what I am because of her.”

Mike Mansfield, America’s longest-serving Senate Majority leader and Ambassador to Japan

Startup Round Table

Andrea Duke

Christina Henderson

Jake Bolson

Ivy Dong

Walker Milhoan

Tim O’Leary Greg Gianforte

Mario Schulzke

Diane Smith

Russ Fletcher Cameron Lawrence

Mentorship

Tim O’Leary

Greg Gianforte

Mario Schulzke

Diane Smith Russ Fletcher

Cameron Lawrence

“David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time… When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win.”

Malcolm Gladwell, How Underdogs Can Win