A few weeks ago, our Innovate Indiana blog told readers about a free workshop at Indiana University Northwest in Gary that was offered to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Led by Subir Bandyopadhyay, a professor of marketing at IU Northwest’s School of Business and Economics, the session covered the topic of “social entrepreneurship” — and the careful balance of making money and maintaining the passion that leads entrepreneurs to launch their business in the first place.
“Monetiation (making money) is not a bad word,” Bandyopadhyay said in a March 14 article in the The Times of Northwest Indiana. “There has to be money coming in. Never lose track of that. Most social entrepreneurship came about as a passion (of the business owner).”
Earlier this year, Bandyopadhyay was honored as Small Business Advocate of the Year by the Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center. The workshop was sponsored in part by Innovate Indiana and offered by IU Northwest’s Center for Urban and Regional Excellence, its School of Business and Economics and the Northwest Indiana SBDC.
Read more about the workshop and those who attended it here:
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