Members of the student Entrepreneurs Club made plans for an upcoming pop-up shop in October and a business festival later in the semester at a meeting on Tuesday.
Participants also learned about how to start and grow businesses at the meeting, which included a business development workshop.
“Entrepreneurs Club is all about building businesses, small businesses, and just building entrepreneurial thinking and having people, you know, bounce ideas off of each other and learn how to develop their businesses or continue their businesses,” E-Club President Cameron Millar said.
“So today, I just did a business development workshop so that people know, like, the first steps to starting their business and making it official,” Millar, a third-year entrepreneurship student, added.
Millar said all student businesses can benefit from E-Club resources and events.
First-year business administration student and licensed esthetician Coren Makell said she benefited from attending the workshop because she wants to start a skincare business.
“I would say this workshop mainly helped me with identifying the leaders that are in the entrepreneurship courses here,” Makell said. “It may allow me to become more familiar with the big dogs that will help get me to where I want to be networking.”
Second-year transfer studies student Christopher Robinson agreed.
“It was great,” Robinson said. “I thought the workshop gave me a lot of clarity on what to focus on and what things I need to, like, to be evaluated. Many, like my logo [and] how I’ve run my own [web]page, for instance.”
Robinson said he plans to run a non-profit business in the future.
N’Kobe Turner, a second-year business administration student who runs a business called Grandma’s Southern Pies, said the event “definitely helped out.”
“I’m no stranger to AACC resources,” Turner said. “It really kind of gave me a nice home to foster my interest and love for business, because I really didn’t have a community outside of here.”
According to Turner, club members are not in competition with each other.
“Everybody is here to support each other and genuinely hope that everybody, like, succeeds,” Turner said. “I think that’s something that is hard to find in a lot of places, and you can find it here.”
