The University of New Hampshire Business Starters is holding its second seminar of the semester tonight at 7 p.m. in MUB Theater II.
The seminar will feature guest speaker Andrew Keller, owner of Dover’s Simply Green Biofuels and Congreenience Store, the first full service fueling station in N.H. to feature real alternative fuels. It will focus on strategies to make a business idea develop into an actual business.
According to the group’s creator, UNH sophomore Davis Demers, this seminar is just one part of the work Business Starters does to foster entrepreneurship on campus and help students start their own businesses.
“This group is a source for people who want to do something entrepreneurial, but don’t know exactly what to do,” Demers said.
Demers also said that many of Business Starters’ current members are not business majors, and that he and the other leaders of the group work hard to deliver information on starting a business at a level that anyone, regardless of their major, can understand.
“At meetings, we give students tips on starting their own businesses,” Demers said. “We also encourage networking between students… we may have strengths on our own, but we’re so much stronger together than we are apart.”
Public Relations officer Colby Delisle, a freshman Business Administration major, said it is the type of information the organization is able to give students that makes the group a good resource.
“We provide tidbits of information from professionals that you would never get in a business class,” Delisle said.
Delisle, who started a Pretzel Time this summer before selling it to a family friend, said that his personal experience with starting a business helps him to help others who want to start one.
“I want to come in with my business experience and educate and network with others,” he said. “A lot of kids have the interest but don’t quite know what to do…I hope to share my knowledge to help my peers but also learn a lot, too.”
Demers said that while he has less hands-on experience in starting a business than Delisle, he hopes his love of entrepreneurship will allow him to help other students.
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