On April 12th, iContact would like to invite all Triangle business, academic, and social enterprise community members to hear an inspirational author and CEO give a talk on "Building a Company With Purpose."

We have the opportunity to hear from the author of Peak, Chip Conley, who along with a few others like Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's, Paul Newman of Newman's Own, Anita Roddick of The Body Shop, and John Mackey of Whole Foods have been transformational leaders in the movement to use business as a tool for positive change in the world.

Chip will be giving a talk on "Building a Company With Purpose" based on his book Peak.

Stay connected with the Minor in Entrepreneurship through our LinkedIn page. 

"The Entrepreneurship Minor at UNC has touched over 500 students in its six years of operation. With this group we hope to connect as many past, present, and future minors as we can." It is a great way to link Eminor for ideas, resources, and opportunities. -John Stewart, Director of the Minor in Entrepreneurship. 

Blinkness, a technology company which strives to become the Google of the collegiate market, was founded in January 2010 by two UNC Graduates, Zaid Farooqui and Corey Harris. In less than a year, they’ve accomplished a major milestone: Developing a partnership with a newspaper outside of North Carolina. So how did they do it?

Participate in a conversation with Gary Parr and Geoffrey Sayre McCord on the genesis of the Parr Center for Ethics, a story of the unique relationship between an academic and an entrepreneur and how it led to the creation of an important campus institution. Lessons learned from the enterprise and how they can be applied to other campus initiatives will be explored.

MIT Chancellor and UNC Trustee Phillip Clay will share his experiences at MIT to consider how UNC might approach innovation. The conversation and brainstorming session will take place in the Hyde Hall Incubator (2nd floor) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 27.

The Chronicle of Higher Education just published an essay adapted from Chancellor Thorp's and Buck Goldstein's new book Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century, being published next month by the University of North Carolina Press. 

Oil-filled oceans, broken financial systems, inequality, lack of clean water and uncured diseases. The world's biggest problems are calling--and calling now.

The good news is that college students are arriving on campus just in time to play important roles in attacking those problems. College students have a high-impact, problem-oriented focus. And their energy, idealism, connectedness and unique point of view are crucial to success in solving the world's greatest problems.

I spent the last ten days in Beijing visiting our internship program. The purpose of my trip was to check-in with the students, meet all of the people that make the program possible (Jim James, Lili, Elliot, and others), and get the feel of the program that I've talked about with so many interested students.

EASTWEST Public Relations continues the tradition of passing on knowledge through the intern program with The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Miranda Garrison is the fourth intern to work with EASTWEST from the UNC Minor in Entrepreneurship program. The 2010 program consists of 13 UNC students who will be placed into 13 different entrepreneurial businesses in Beijing as part of a summer internship program.