Entrepreneurs' Breakfast Meeting 

The Good Life??? Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice

Electing to start your own business can be scary, but also liberating.  When is the right time to take the leap? Should you quit your day job or keep it to pay the bills? What is the impact on the rest of your life of running a business?

Tony Pfister, CEO of ClassBook.com and past president of the local chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization, will talk about the considerations and consequences that he faced in electing an entrepreneurial career path in an industry plagued by disruptive change.  The decision to start his own company rather than work for someone else and the resulting impact on his life will be described as we learn about the growth and development of Classbook, a thriving startup headquartered in the Capital Region. 

View a YNN inerview with Tony here.

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*All RPI students are required to pre-register with a $10 cash deposit at Pitts Rm 4104. Students not pre-registered with a $10 deposit, will be charged a $10 nonrefundable fee at the door. Suggested student attire is business wear. If pre-registered students do not attend the meeting and fail to cancel their registration by the deadline, their deposit will not be refunded.

The Entrepreneurs' Breakfast Group (formerly known as SIG), is a university-community collaborative sponsored by the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship, located in the Lally School of Management & Technology. The group serves as a nexus for young innovators and researchers to engage with business leaders and seasoned entrepreneurs to exchange ideas, discuss emerging research, and stay informed of current strategic and global trends. The group has over 400 business members, with chapters in Albany, NY and the Bay Area, CA.

The Paul J. '69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE), established in 1988, helps foster new generations of entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and research. Centered in Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology, The Severino Center lies at the core of Lally’s commitment to Entrepreneurship. The mission of the SCTE is to integrate educational and research programs by exposing every Rensselaer student to the practices and principles of entrepreneurship, to infuse the fundamentals of entrepreneurship throughout the Rensselaer curriculum, and to extend Rensselaer’s leadership and national prominence in technological entrepreneurship.