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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -– The Walmart Foundation has announced a $1 million grant to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) Program. The grant will send 300 veterans with disabilities to entrepreneurship bootcamp at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and six other universities participating in EBV. The grant also will support expansion of […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University faculty, staff, students and the public can learn about what’s needed to launch a company at the university’s fifth annual Company Fund Raising Boot Camp on Oct. 11 in Discovery Park. Keynote speaker is Midwest entrepreneur Michael Fry, the creative mind behind Fancy Fortune Cookies. He will offer advice […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Veterans from across the country have arrived at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management for an intensive seven-day course aimed at helping them start their own businesses. Created at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management in 2007, the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities trains post-9/11 disabled veterans in entrepreneurship and […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue faculty, staff, students and collaborators can learn about what’s needed to launch a company at the university’s third annual Company Fund Raising Boot Camp on Oct. 13-14 in Discovery Park. Michael Birck, chairman and founder of telecommunication giant Tellabs Inc. and a Purdue trustee, is the keynote speaker for the […]