Mission Statement

As a contribution to the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, it is our mission to promote lasting relationships and opportunities between students, alumni, and friends of Elon University through the creation of a student-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem.  SEED will work with appropriate on and off campus organizations to promote entrepreneurial thinking and activities.

Our History

Spring 2009

The first meeting of SEED was in February 2009.  We had a great turnout and planned some of the events for the semester.  Our first event was the Elon Innovation Challenge.  It was a huge success with Alpha Omicron Pi submitting the winning video of "The Ticket to Freedom."  (video below)

We also hosted the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour (www.ExtremeTour.org) and had numerous speakers come to campus.  Summer Curtiss '10 was elected President of SEED and Gary Palin served as advisor.

The Beginning

In the Fall of 2008, a few business students decided to get together to create an Entrepreneurship organization.  They started the Elon Entrepreneur & Ventureship Organization.  This organization is the predecessor to SEED.