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- 2010-2011 Project Leader Applications and Interviews
Each year, a new group of Carnegie Mellon students serve as Project Leaders of a SIFE project. Your major and...More
- CMU SIFE 2010 Annual Report
2009-10 has been an amazing year for the Carnegie Mellon University SIFE team. From being nominated as 3 topic competition...More
About Build Your Own Business
Established in 2007, the Build Your Own Business Project (BYOB) aims to foster a spirit of entrepreneurship, leadership and community awareness in students. Once they submit a business plan, students are given advice and funding to catalyze their businesses.
BYOB held a business competition open to all CMU students. The first place winner was "Rebaterabbit.com", an online business reduces the cost of web hosting by returning 20% of hosting costs back to the customers. The second winner was iCMU, an iphone application that provides a central source of information for on-campus events.
BYOB also held an entrepreneurship week in which two of the most highly regarded faculty members gave lectures such as, "7 Steps on How to Come up with a Business Idea and How to sell that Idea" and "Entrepreneurship Dinner".