Center for Applied Entrepreneurship and Innovation
At Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School, the Center for Applied Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CAEI) helps students explore, test, build, buy, and transform businesses in real markets.
Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School has partnered with Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit venture growth program aimed at scaling early-stage technology companies.
How can students use AI to build faster while thinking carefully about what’s worth building? Explore challenge data as students test ideas across healthcare, agriculture, energy, education, and more.
This exclusive event brings together accomplished Texas business owners, operators, and top-tier students to explore Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) — buying, owning, and operating existing businesses as a legitimate and lucrative career path.
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Join us for free workshops geared toward many entrepreneurial and business topics. Network with others and build your community!
A workshop series to help you start your own business, Startup 101 is led by experienced and established professionals.
Aggie 100 is designed to honor the 100 fastest growing Aggie-owned or Aggie-led businesses in the world. In addition, Aggie 100 provides a forum to pass lessons to the next generation of Aggie entrepreneurs.
We harness the power of the Aggie Network to connect exceptional ventures with the capital and expertise they need to change the world.
The Texas A&M New Ventures Competition is open to all Texas-based companies seeking to bring a new or enhanced technology to the marketplace. Participant companies must be technology- or science-focused independent ventures in the pre-seed/seed, start-up or early growth stages.