Vermont Business Magazine More than 300 students attended the thirteenth annual Vermont Entrepreneurship Week event February 9.
The Small Business Administration’s recently appointed New England Administrator, Mike Vlacich, provided the opening remarks. Keeping with this year’s theme, Vermont Entrepreneurs … Building Networks, Vlacich stressed the importance of meeting people from different careers and backgrounds and the exchanging of ideas can benefit the students when they enter the professional workforce.
In a proclamation written by Governor Phil Scott, the state’s leader said encouraging youth to be excited about entrepreneurship and working to expand the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of Vermont’s youth and adults to be successful entrepreneurs are crucial to the long-term growth of local communities.
Additionally a panel of young entrepreneurs that included Jacob Dubois of Uptown Cow, Sophia Manzi of Vivace Vermont, Alex Gemme of Treeline Terrains, and Skylar Bagdon of PanicMechanic & ChromaJam spoke to students about what it takes to start a business in Vermont and how entrepreneurship helps grow the state’s economy, creates good jobs, and increases prosperity.
National Entrepreneurship Week is held in recognition of the heritage of entrepreneurial leadership in America, and encourages support for the growth of entrepreneurship education as a lifelong learning process, reminding everyone that our economy grows because of entrepreneurs and their creative thinking.
Vermont Student Entrepreneurship Day is brought to you by Vermont Small Business Development Center; U.S. Small Business Administration - Vermont District Office; Vermont Career and Technical Student Organizations; and Vermont Business Education Corps.
MONTPELIER – U.S. Small Business Administration - Vermont District Office
