Our three organizations are working together to provide continuity of information

and connectivity among all of its members starting from our undergraduates

to graduate students to our alumni and community leaders.

We jointly share information on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

We also share our webpage at:

www.ctr.usf.edu/BNFE-CEO and   www.BNFE.org

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Bulls’ New Frontier of Entrepreneurship (BNFE) is a student organization that grew out of the
Entrepreneurship master’s program at USF’s College of Business. The club sponsors many joint
events with USF’s Center for Entrepreneurship, but club is not directly affiliated with it.

By being autonomous, we look to engage with other schools, civic groups, business leaders, and
community members throughout the Tampa Bay area.  As an organization, we want to bridge the gap
between academic theory and real-world practice … between a simple vision and its reality. Through our
club functions and events, we look to help our student entrepreneurs with building business
connections and mentoring relationships with other successful business leaders. By providing these
networking opportunities, we hope our entrepreneurs will gain valuable advice, information, and support
from established area business owners & executives. In turn, our executives will find a new generation
of entrepreneurs, and an excellent resource to recruit creative and well-trained candidates.

We also hope that these educational and networking opportunities will lead to more successful start-ups.
Additionally, we will continue to provide co-curricular activities, workshops, and speaking engagements
to compliment our academic programs. Our students will participate in national competitions, local
initiatives, or other area programs that further advances our club’s mission while still giving back to
our community with valuable research and knowledge.

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I. Mission
To advance interdisciplinary entrepreneurship through education, mentoring relationships, and
networking opportunities.
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II. Vision
To create a nationally recognized entrepreneurship club that offers support to student entrepreneurs and
area business owners through education, research initiatives, and outreach programs while developing
tomorrow’s leaders.

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III. Values

• Entrepreneurship is a lifelong quest
• Developing diversity in skills enhancing positive outcomes
• Treating individuals with honesty and integrity
• Accelerating entrepreneurship through education, training and research
• Giving of your time, talent and resources develops the giver as well as the recipient

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IV. Objectives

• Create synergistic relationships.
• Help students accelerate their businesses from an invention/ product/ service …
  to start-up … to the marketplace.
• Help students and area entrepreneurs reach the next level of business reality.
• Add value to our community and region through student initiatives and outreach
  programs that promote economic growth.
• Combine our efforts with other area business improvement centers.

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ANTI-HAZING CLAUSE
Our organization agrees to abide by Florida State Statute #1006.63 regarding hazing.

“This organization prohibits its members, both individually and collectively from committing any acts of hazing as defined herein:
‘Hazing,’ means any action or situation, which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with this organization. Such terms shall include, but not be limited to, any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, liquor, drug, or other substance, or any forced activity which could adversely affect the mental or physical health, the safety or dignity of the individual to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contact, forced conduct which could result in extreme embarrassment, or any other forced activity which could adversely affect the mental or physical health, the safety or dignity of the individual. For the purpose of this section, any activity as described above upon which the initiation or admission into or affiliation with this organization is directly or indirectly conditioned shall be presumed to be a ‘forced activity,’ the willingness of an individual to participate in such activity notwithstanding.”