Entrepreneurship

Transcript

Okay, everyone, we have another impressive FAU student for you to meet. Aiden is a business management major with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. He’s gonna share his story of taking an idea and turning it into a business with the help of the resources FAU offers to student innovators and entrepreneurs. This is gonna be a good one, Aiden, you’re up, my man.

– Welcome to sunny South Florida, a boater’s paradise. I grew up on the water whether it was boating, fishing, or surfing, and I knew I wanted to attend a school that fit for me and my future. With most of my life being spent around the ocean, it was only proper that I build my career around it. Thus, my entrepreneurial mindset took over. When I had the idea to innovate the boating community, like any startup business, the early stages of development can be quite scary. But FAU gave me the tools and resources I needed to create my startup business, Marine Connex, a platform that connects boaters with qualified marine service vendors. Taking a leap with my idea into several entrepreneurial programs such as the FAU Wave, the Business Plan Competition, and the FAU Tech Runway, I began to see a future for me for Marine Connex. I applied and was accepted into the FAU Wave program. This program helped me get my idea up and running. As I developed further, I was accepted into the FAU Business Plan Competition. I stood up in front of a room of investors and pitched my idea, not as a student, but as a professional. I won first place and $10,000 to begin investing into my idea. FAU has done so much for me and I’m gonna go ahead and leave you with one more piece of advice. FAU provides students with so many opportunities to be successful, but it’s up to you as the student to take advantage of those opportunities and to make it happen. Back to you, Alex.

– Thank you, Aiden. Boca Raton has a long history of innovation as home to centers credited with the advancement of modern computing and airborne radar, so it’s fitting that a school founded in this region of ingenuity provides unmatched opportunities for students to turn their dreams into reality. Thanks again.