Welcome back event introducing students to the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and Cone Center programming for the year.
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Join us for the reopening of our Learning Lab! Discounts and pop-ups galore.
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Founder's Club is a biweekly meeting where student entrepreneurs gather to receive mentorship, get questions answered, and build community with fellow student business owners. Led by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
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Have an idea? Now what? Customer discovery, business model basics, and next steps. Completing Bootcamp is the prerequisite for Sprint.
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Founder's Club is a biweekly meeting where student entrepreneurs gather to receive mentorship, get questions answered, and build community with fellow student business owners. Led by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
Sign up for the club →
Presented by the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life & Faith, the Art & Wonder Festival will showcase art and music that celebrate the Christian story. Featuring a curated selection of faith-inspired vendors and artists, attendees will experience live music, film screenings, art exhibitions, hands-on art activities, and more—all designed to explore and reflect the beauty, truth, and wonder of the Christian faith.
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BrainTrust LIVE is the one day a year where nationally celebrated women founders get radically honest about the pivots they didn't see coming, the decisions that kept them up at night, and the moments they almost quit… and what they did instead. On October 2, 2026, join us in Nashville for a full day built around the truth — that the messy middle is part of the path to success.
The Center has exclusive, limited tickets for 8 lucky students.
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Founder's Club is a biweekly meeting where student entrepreneurs gather to receive mentorship, get questions answered, and build community with fellow student business owners. Led by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
Sign up for the club →
Hear from Hispanic food entrepreneurs in Nashville, including restaurant owners and food truck operators, as they share how they built their businesses through change and challenge. Free food samples provided. Counts for WellCore credit.
Focused mentorship sprint. Students work one-on-one with mentors to refine their model and test assumptions. Bootcamp completion required.
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The NEXT Awards + Entrepreneurs' Hall of Fame, Presented by Amazon, is Middle Tennessee's most prestigious night for the founders transforming industries, creating opportunity, and shaping the future of Nashville. Six hundred business leaders. Red carpet arrivals. The Schermerhorn Symphony Center. A new class of Entrepreneurs' Hall of Fame inductees, and 24 finalists competing for eleven trophies. Cocktails in the Courtyard until the music stops.
They call it the Oscars of business. The CMAs for founders. We call it the night Nashville's entrepreneurs take the stage they earned.
The Cone Center has 20 seats reserved for student entrepreneurs.
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Sam Walker graduated from Belmont's Curb College in 2014 with a degree in Music Business — not exactly the typical path to the craft beverage industry. But when Sam and his brother Luke found themselves loving craft beer and not loving how it made them feel, they did what entrepreneurs do: they went to the garage and got to work. The result is Walker Brothers, a line of non-alcoholic and high gravity beverages made with organic ingredients, built around the idea that a great-tasting drink shouldn't come at the cost of how you feel the next day.
Come hear his story, taste the kombucha, and earn WellCore credit.
Janvier Buggs runs social media and content for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. She taught herself short-form video and grew her own brand, woogirling, to 34,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok by filming Nashville. In this hands-on session, she'll share what makes people stop scrolling and her BUILD framework for planning content. Bring your phone. Counts for WellCore credit.
Founder's Club is a biweekly meeting where student entrepreneurs gather to receive mentorship, get questions answered, and build community with fellow student business owners. Led by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
Sign up for the club →
Hands-on ideation and entrepreneurial thinking workshop. Campus-wide. Open to all students.
An in-store activation at both student-run shops — come by, shop, and meet the students behind them.
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Our Keynote Speaker for Big Idea Week will challenge you to dream big, and go out into the world to do great things.
While rowing across the Atlantic ocean, Taryn shared her experience in daily video updates on Instagram. Much to her surprise, these diaries captured the attention of people around the world. Why would a Nebraskan with no rowing experience choose to row across the ocean, suffering through blisters, sunburns, sleep deprivation, 30 foot waves, and extreme isolation? Her response: “why not.” We are meant to throw ourselves into the unknown, chase big (crazy?) dreams, and have fun along the way.
Our annual pitch competition, judged by a panel of alumni entrepreneurs, VCs and community partners.
$8,000+ in prizes. Closes Big Idea Week.
Apply to pitch →
Founder's Club is a biweekly meeting where student entrepreneurs gather to receive mentorship, get questions answered, and build community with fellow student business owners. Led by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
Sign up for the club →
Have an idea? Now what? Customer discovery, business model basics, and next steps. Completing Bootcamp is the prerequisite for Sprint.
Apply for Bootcamp →
Join us for free doughnuts, conversation, and community with the new dean of the business school!
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Members receive special access to mentors, events, and tools to get their business growing. Fall 2026 meeting dates:
Start with the basics, then get a week of one-on-one mentorship. Bootcamp comes first — it's the prerequisite for Sprint.
Dream it. Build it. Grow it. The Entrepreneur Pipeline is your step-by-step guide to turning ideas into thriving ventures — open to all majors, designed to fuel bold entrepreneurs like you.
Learn more →Not every opportunity has a date on it. These run all year.
Book a free one-on-one with a founder who has already done it. Open to any Belmont student.
Meet the mentors →Put your venture in front of judges and compete for funding to move it forward.
See the competitions →The entrepreneurship curriculum, course by course, in the Belmont catalog.
View the catalog →Already running something? Register your venture and get it listed in the directory.
Browse the directory →