Where Ideas

The Broward College Entrepreneurship Experience (BCEx) is a place where your ideas matter. Designed for BC students, faculty/staff, and the surrounding community, our goal is to help you launch your business, while simultaneously creating a college-wide culture of entrepreneurship to revolutionize the way we learn, teach and lead.

The Broward College Entrepreneurship Experience (BCEx) is a place where your ideas matter. Designed for BC students, faculty/staff, and the surrounding community, our goal is to help you launch your business, while simultaneously creating a college-wide culture of entrepreneurship to revolutionize the way we learn, teach and lead.

Explore BCEx

prepare yourself for the

“NEw Economy”

one must evolve to compete - BCEx develops the skills to compete

One must evolve to compete /
BCex has a solution no matter who you are:
develop your ideas
students
Launch a start-up
Community
innovate @ BCEx
Faculty & Staff

do you Aspire to be

your own boss?

Have you ever imagined starting your own business? Not sure how you’d get there? Let Broward College help you innovate, create, and prepare for the future of work. Whether you need mentorship, coaching, funding or training, we have the programs to make you or your business or social venture successful.

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broward STUDENTS
i am a Student

If you’re a current Broward student and have a business idea you’d like to explore, we’ll walk you through how to develop & refine your idea into a sustainable business via our Idea Lab.

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Student start-ups How it works:

  • LaunchBC

    For students, the Idea Lab @ BCEx is your starting point for all things related to starting your business and beyond. It’s here where we’ll help you develop your start-up idea.

  • J. David Armstrong, Jr. Venture Fund

    If you need some cash to help launch your start-up, the J. David Armstrong, Jr. Venture Fund allows students the opportunity to pitch for funding. Ever watch Shark Tank?

  • Innovation Hub

    If you have completed the activities in the Idea Lab, secured venture funding, or just want a place to grow your business, the Innovation Hub is our on-campus start-up incubator.

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ENTREPRENEURS
i am an entrepreneur

You don’t have to be a Broward student to benefit from BCEx initiatives. Click below to see how we help local entrepreneurs launch & grow their start-ups.

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Community Start Ups how it works:

  • start-up now program

    Start-Up Now is Broward County’s leading accelerator program, in partnership with CareerSource Broward, providing about $20,000 worth of best practices, education and mentoring, all FREE of charge, if you qualify.

  • J. David Armstrong, Jr. Venture Fund

    Once you build your business in our accelerator, you can have the opportunity to pitch for funding to help launch your start up.

  • Innovation Hub

    The Innovation Hub @ BCEx is our business incubator, offering services like office space, mentorship, networking and everything else you'd need for your start-up.

Teaching FOR

FOR THE FUTURE WORKPLACE

We aim to refine existing curriculum courses to meet the demands of the future of work and the anticipated effect of automation on education (e.g., integration of financial and entrepreneurship education, scaling of courses and/or student learning outcomes in critical thinking, cultural competency, mental agility, and ethical mindedness, etc.).

If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.”
- Brian Chesky // Co-founder of Airbnb

Academic excellence

& Innovation

The future of work, the demands of current employers, coupled with high student interest in starting a business and acquiring foundational knowledge of business and entrepreneurship theories and principles, provided the rationale of supporting the launching of BCEx in the Spring of 2018.

Our Partnerships

What we’re up to

meet the crew

ABOUT US

success stories

We've put together a collection of videos from staff, students and entrepreneurs to help show you the impact of BCEx initiatives on the community. We invite you to check them out below to learn more about BCEx directly from those who are participating in our programs - including the faculty who helped to develop them. Start your journey today @ BCEx!

  • 800+

    Students, entrepreneurs and faculty who've partipated in BCEx initiatives since our 2018 launch.

  • 500K

    In seed money is available to BCEx participants who meet all JDA Venture Fund requirements.

  • 50+

    Events a year, including meet-ups, speaker series, workshops, pitch events and networking opportunities.

Upcoming Events

From networking and meet-up opportunities to speaker and workshop sessions, BCEx has plenty of ways to take the next step in growing your ideas. Swing by an event and talk with the team @ BCEx to see how we can help with your plans for your future.

april, 2024

Event Type

No Events

future

so, Where’s your place in the future?

85%

85% of all jobs could be in occupations that don’t exist today.

800M

As many as 800 million jobs could be lost to automation

40%

Up to 40% of the workforce will be contractors

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

- John F. Kennedy
2030
2030
Are you prepared?
Q&A
Have questions?
Common BCEX q&A

Have questions about BCEx or any of its programs? We’ve put together some helpful questions and answers below. If you still have questions or want to get involved, we’d love to discuss with you!

DO YOUhave an idea?
954-201-7402
bcex@broward.edu
broward STUDENTS
i am a Student

If you’re a current Broward student and have a business idea you’d like to explore, we’ll walk you through how to develop & refine your idea into a sustainable business via our Idea Lab.

ENTREPRENEURS
i am an entrepreneur

You don’t have to be a Broward student to benefit from our business incubator. Click below to see how we help entrepreneurs launch & grow their start-ups.

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