What is the Breakfast Club?

The Breakfast Club brings MBAs together (potentially with others in the University and entrepreneurial community) to discuss and vet business ideas. Our model is Silicon Valley-style "business idea" clubs like Round Zero. Each meeting a volunteer gives a brief presentation on an industry, segment, company, or business idea. In the remaining time, the audience discusses different industry value drivers, pokes holes in the idea, looks at why a company is successful/not successful, and brainstorms ways new companies can enter and exploit latent value. Our goal is to foster the exchange of ideas and networking among students from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill-sets, be it marketing, finance, high-tech or anything else. Potential outputs include new contacts, teams, business plans, venture capital connections, and/or companies.

Upcoming Breakfast Clubs

09.17.2004 - Dare to Dream Quickpitch

MBA1s network with MBA2s learning about each other's backgrounds and interests and (hopefully) sparking some new business ideas!

For those applying for Dare to Dream grants, pitch your idea to the audience and get real-time feedback.

Past Breakfast Clubs

01.30.2004 - Pryor-Hale Warmup

12.12.2003 - Wireless - Raj Shaw

11.14.2003 - Nanotechnology - Mike Crowley