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»Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics

The Leatherby Center is accelerating entrepreneurial success through research, education, and collaboration. Students, alumni, entrepreneurs, inventors, and investors connect and collaborate through innovative programs and events by the Leatherby Center.

TEDxChapmanU - Richard Sudek - Courage to Fail

Entrepreneur Richard Sudek discuses the fear of failure and its many benefits. He teaches us to embrace and learn from failure and its many forms.

Chapman Entrepreneurship Business Report

Richard Sudek, director of Entrepreneur program at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics, discusses the business and ethics of entrepreneurship with Pete Weitzner, host of Chapman Business Report. Also featuring recent Forbes entrepreneur contest winners Dylan Balsz and Tilden Smith.

Tilden Smith: Forbes All-Star Student Entrepreneurs:
Profiting from Pet Potties

Tilden Smith, 20, Junior, Chapman University
International Pet Solutions
by Elizabeth Woyke

It takes guts to launch a product at a Las Vegas trade show at any age. Tilden Smith did it at 19.

When Smith's high school pal Dylan Balsz called in the fall of 2009 with his idea to start a business selling indoor outhouses for pets, Smith was enthusiastic. Balsz, a graphic designer, had dreamt up a smart design that involved a fake rectangle of lawn, and a removable tray. Read More.

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