TiE University was branded as TYE University when it was birthed in Atlanta in 2013 after seeing the wonderful impact we had on highschoolers to provide hard and soft skills in preparing them for a pitch competition. The program evolved into the global initiative called TiE University in 2019, and has continued to be enhanced with the delivery of dedicated mentoring as the key differentiator for college teams, thus empowering college students and recent alums with the tools to become entrepreneurs.
To further evolve the university ecosystem beyond the confines of a competition focused on prize money, local and global workshops taught by the “best of the best” have been added, in addition to a worldwide hackathon to increase ideation and solutions, online self-paced courses to be digitally ready for the 21st century, plus trips to Silicon Valley and India by winning teams at the culmination of the season with tours and corporate visits included to open their minds to entrepreneurial possibilities.
While we have much more to be achieved in the coming years, I’m confident that the seeds of entrepreneurship sown with thousands of teams across 400+ colleges worldwide and especially utilizing hundreds of mentors who coach these young businesspeople selflessly, will blossom into ‘trees and forests’ that will yield skills and results that are beyond our imagination!