Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
The Miami Herald Small Business Forum
Entrepreneurship: Let Your Dreams Soar
The Miami Herald Media Company along with FIU's College of Business Administration, Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center and the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) South Florida presents the sixth annual small business forum on Thursday, February 23, 2012. Among the topics of discussion are financing opportunities, international business and web-based businesses. With a special keynote address by Miguel (Mike) Fernandez, chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, L.P.
Spring 2012 Entrepreneur's "How to" Webinar Series
Upcoming Webinar on February 21st: Legal Issues Facing Entrepreneurs
Led by Marcell Felipe, Esq., Founder of Marcell Felipe Attorneys, this session will introduce how to determine the right legal, management and financial structure of your start up. Learn the tax and liability considerations of various legal and funding structures of your company.
Are you up for the Challenge?
Enter into the 2012 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge
Entry Dates: February 6th through March 24th, 2012
Entering the challenge can give you valuable media coverage in The Miami Herald as well as exposure to possible investors in your business.
Welcome the newest member of our faculty!
Seema Pissaris, PhD, Professor, Department of Management and International Business
Before pursuing academia, Dr. Pissaris was an avid entrepreneur, with a series of successful ventures. Her last venture, which distributed video games and accessories to mass merchandisers, went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. She continues to be actively involved in community entrepreneurial and social organizations, and her family ventures.
Spring 2012 Entrepreneurship Workshop Series
Upcoming Workshop on Friday, March 2nd, 2012: Developing a Killer Business Plan
Led by Robert H. Hacker, adjunct professor and author of Billion Dollar Company: An entrepreneur’s guide to business models for high growth companies, this session will introduce several techniques to profoundly understand the customer. Discover how to create innovative products and services to meet those needs.
Contact Us
- Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
T: 305.348.7156
F: 305.348.0011
E: entrepreneurship@fiu.edu
Dr. Jerry Haar, Director
Whether in the arts, sciences, business, engineering, or humanities, Entrepreneurship at FIU adds value to every discipline and enhances the creativity and innovation of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. In addition to facilitating course development throughout FIU, the Center fosters new technology firms, strengthens existing family-owned and managed firms, researches important issues, encourages new community enterprises to improve the economic vitality of South Florida and the Americas, and develops entrepreneurial leaders in all areas.
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The Pino Center’s mission is to create entrepreneurial leaders and organizations in all segments of society, throughout South Florida and Internationally.
The Pino Center provides the FIU community of students, alumni, and professionals with the knowledge and contacts that enable them to reach their entrepreneurial objective of designing and launching successful new ventures based on innovative concepts.
Our vision is to be a recognized international leader in entrepreneurship research, education, and outreach, as well as to be ranked among the nation’s top entrepreneurship centers.
The Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center is focused on four guiding principles:
- International: to work with companies seeking to co-venture with emerging companies in Latin America and South Florida, leveraging the geographic significance of South Florida as the Gateway of the Americas
- Innovation: to leverage cutting edge technology and management strategies
- Inflection Point: to help take organizations to the next level
- Involvement: within FIU’s sister units and external partners
