CConnolly Entrepreneurship NetworkWashington and Lee University

Programs

Connolly Entrepreneurship Society

W&L's student entrepreneurship society. A hands-on, credit-bearing course where you work on a real venture with other students who are doing the same.

Read the current CES syllabus

Students talking with a visitor at their venture's table

What you do in CES

  • Work on a venture. Your own, or join a team. You’ll interview customers, test assumptions, and build the smallest thing that teaches you something.
  • Hear from people who’ve done it. Weekly speakers: alumni founders, investors, faculty and local business owners.
  • Learn the money side. Venture capital, crowdfunding, and how early-stage funding actually works.
  • Run the Summit. CES members help plan and run the Entrepreneurship Summit.

The details

Course ENT 1090, 1 credit, counts toward the Signature Experience requirement
When Fall and winter terms, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:50 a.m.–12:50 p.m.
Who Any major, any class year
End of term Fall: the Fall Video Pitch Competition (December 2). Winter: the Entrepreneurship Summit.

Scheduling and registration details can change. Check the course listing when you register.

Not sure you’re ready?

You don’t need an idea to join. Plenty of members start with a problem they care about and find the idea in the first few weeks. See Start here for more.

The Connolly Chronicle

What's being built at W&L, every month.

Student ventures, Summit news, alumni who want to help, and the dates that matter. One email a month. Leave any time.