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Third Annual McNair Entrepreneurship Showcase featuring Steve Forbes

Community Event

Third Annual McNair Entrepreneurship Showcase featuring Steve Forbes

January 31,2020

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Senate (1022 Senate Street Columbia, SC 29201)

Details

The University of South Carolina
McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise
presents the
Third Annual McNair Entrepreneurship Showcase
Friday, January 31, 2020 | 2-5pm | The Senate | Columbia, SC
featuring keynote speaker
Mr. Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, author and former presidential candidate

Free and Open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni and the Public; Registration Required

UofSC Alumni Pop Up Shops and Displays | Resource Provider Tables | Food and Music

About the McNair Entrepreneurship Showcase

The third annual McNair Entrepreneurship Showcase is slated for Friday, January 31, 2020, hosted by the University of South Carolina McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise and featuring Steve Forbes as the keynote speaker at 3pm. The showcase is designed to inspire, invigorate and inform students, business leaders and alumni about entrepreneurship and innovation in South Carolina. The afternoon showcase event is free and open to the public and is presented by the Young America’s Foundation.

In addition, UofSC alumni will be showcasing their companies as well as detailing their unique personal journeys to owning their own businesses. The showcased companies represent a variety of industries such as technology, consumer goods, and marketing. Attendees will have a unique opportunity to interact with leaders in the community as well as resource providers for starting a company.

About the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise at the University of South Carolina

The McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise at the University of South Carolina promotes scholarly activity, educates students about the role of free enterprise and entrepreneurship in enhancing economic growth, and encourages students to contribute and participate through entrepreneurism in creating a better America.

The Institute is funded through the generosity of the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation which also funds centers at multiple other universities across the nation supporting entrepreneurship and free enterprise education. Under the guiding vision of Robert and Janice McNair, the foundation is committed to developing a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders who have both the technical skills and the philosophical understanding of how the free enterprise system forms the basis of economic opportunity and prosperity for individuals in our country.

About Steve Forbes

Keynote speaker Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. His newest project is the podcast “What’s Ahead,” where he engages the world’s top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics and discusses his signature views on the intersection of society, economics and policy. Mr. Forbes campaigned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1996 and 2000. He is an accomplished author (books include Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity and Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy – and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames), and the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.

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