Best Idea Incubator
Creative Loafing 2011 Best of the Bay
Featured Program
USF:UNSTOPPABLE Campaign
Proclamation: November as Entrepreneurship Month
City of St. Petersburg, 2010 & 2011 (in honor of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Alliance at USFSP)
Top Entrepreneur, IP, Innovation and Micro Enterprise People
The Entrepreneur’s Advisor
Featured Resource Partner
Startup Florida (part of the Startup America Partnership)
Scholarships
- Gus and Frances Stavros Family Scholarship for Entrepreneurs
- Spring 2012: Jeffrey Baird and Jessica Barnett
- SEIA Staff Scholarship Fund
Notable Program Achievements
- Second Entrepreneurship Major at a public institution in the state of Florida
- First Creative-In-Residence in a College of Business in the United States
- First course on scaling a company at a university in the United States
Notable Student Achievements
- 2012 CEO Startup Simulation Challenge Champion
- 2012 Outstanding Organization of the Year (USFSP Entrepreneur Club)
- 2012 Junior Student Leader of the Year (Jessica Barnett)
- 2012 Startup Weekend Tampa Third Place
- 2012 SEEC Pitch Competition Third Place Recipient
- 2011 Gazelle Lab Demo Day Student Pitch Competition $2000 Recipient (Reuben Pressman)
- 2011 Startup Weekend Tampa Second Place
Notable Students & Alumni
- Jeffrey Baird, founder of Kngroo, former participant in Gazelle Lab
- Jessica Barnett, founder of Foursquare Day and co-founder of Kngroo, former president of the USFSP Entrepreneurship Student Club
- Reuben Pressman, founder of Awesome St. Petersburg, Swings Tampa Bay and Now! That’s What I Call Startups, former intern for Gazelle Lab
- Nassim E. Shamsideen, Sales Associate at Mintek Mobile Data Solutions, former president of the USFSP Entrepreneurship Student Club
Notable Events
- Simple Community with Richard Luker
- For the Love of St. Petersburg with Peter Kageyama
- Creative Loafing & Creative Tampa Bay’s 10/100/1000 Event with SEIA Students as Visiting Judges
- Gazelle Lab Launch Event with Brent Britton, Bill Jackson, John Morrow, Marvin Scaff & Daniel James Scott
Academics
Student Club
- St. Petersburg Chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO)
- 170+ members
Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship
- Guest Articles from HR Guru Kelley Rexroad, SEIA Creative-In-Residence Nathan Schwagler, & the Poynter Institute’s Wendy Wallace
- Circulation Number (TBD)
Economic Outreach
- Gazelle Lab
- A TechStars Network member, mentor-driven, seed stage investment program
- Second location, in Orlando, opens Spring 2012 (making Gazelle Lab the second largest program in the TechStars Network)
- Since August 2011:
- 6 businesses started
- 22 jobs created
- >$200,000 capital formation
- For complete results, please visit http://gazellelab.com/results
- SBDC
- Provides free business counseling & low cost seminars to small business owners in Pinellas County.
- Since inception:
- 423 businesses started
- 2,471 jobs created
- $47.6MM capital formation
- $200.6MM sales increases
- $193.5MM government contracts
- For complete results, please visit http://floridasbdc.org/regional.php
- The Alliance, and its programs, have received over 150 mentions in national and regional press since August 2010.
- For a running tab of press coverage for Gazelle Lab (including TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others), please visit http://gazellelab.com/media.
- For a running tab of SEIA press releases, please visit our Maddux NewsWire channel at http://madduxpress.com/index.php/seialliance/.
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