Belmont Entrepreneurial Showcase: May 2009 Archives

Aaron K. Chatterj, a member of Generation Y, has written a thoughtful commentary at the Philadelphia Inquirer on how his generation is facing the new economic reality:

...[W]ith the world facing the most serious economic crisis in a generation, we are now the ones who need advice. The millennials (as members of my generation are also known) now graduating from college face a dismal job market. Ready or not, Generation Y - the multitasking, entrepreneurial do-gooders alternately glorified and admonished by the rest of the generational pyramid - is about to be put to the test.

Spending time with many Belmont University Gen Y students and those we are meeting in eastern Europe gives me great hope that this generation understands the challenges they face and is ready to pass the tests that lie ahead.  They are eager to lead us into a new era.

Here are some of our students during a visit to Corvinus University in Budapest.

We had our Entrepreneurship Banquet for the Center for Entrepreneurship here at Belmont.  It was a night to celebrate the many accomplishments of our students.  We had a full house of students alumni, family, community supporters, faculty and staff join together for this wonderful event -- over 130 people attended.


Here are many of the members of the team we just took out to Anaheim.

Special honors were given to John Price and Sam Dryden and their venture Lifetime Reel, who were named our Student Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2009.



John and Sam's business is making family documentaries.  So as a special thank you to the Moench Family, who have endowed our entrepreneurship speakers series, we gave them a certificate to have a documentary done to commemorate their father who was a very successful entrepreneur here in Nashville.

Here are his two sons, Ernie and Lynn, who attend many of the events their family make possible through their give to our Center.