Education Built By Experience
Discover how educators and business leaders are bringing their entrepreneurial experiences to their classrooms.
Driven by Academic Entrepreneurship
Join our community of entrepreneurship educators to build a more experiential startup experience.

Jeff Whalen is an entrepreneur, innovator, chemist, teacher, and mentor with experience creating several successful science innovation technology startups.
His coursework at Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship focuses on real-life STEM innovation and commercialization.

Lori Kendall has 30+ years as a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and technology executive.
She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in quantitative methods, entrepreneurship, business strategy, problem-solving, and leadership.

Shu's research primarily focuses on gender funding gaps and accelerator impact.
Her research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, and Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy.

Allen Clary is a startup advisor who is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs create and grow great companies.
He inspires his students by laying out the hard steps, sacrifice, and discipline required to be a successful entrepreneur.

Liza Herzog has 20 years of experience in education across higher education both as an administrator and as a faculty member.
Her work crosses curriculum design and development, program evaluation and assessment, strategic school improvement planning, and research design.

John Wilson an entrepreneur and scholar with more than twenty years experience as a business leader in the software & services industries.
He strives to bring a multi-dimensional perspective on market dynamics and a lean, iterative approach to building thriving, profitable businesses.
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Student Testimonials
See what students have to say about their experience with Startup Wars simulations.

I found the experience very interesting and educational, and I look forward to using this knowledge in the future.

Startup Wars allowed me to understand everything that goes into starting a business in 90 days.

Startup Wars is an interactive way to learn and hone entrepreneurial skills while being a no-risk outlet. Great tool for those pursuing entrepreneurship.