Kane knows what it takes to build a business and after being a part of 12 different startups he is a true entrepreneur, making him perfect for the job. He said that he treats his new job similarly to the way he approached all of his businesses as an entrepreneur and the entrepreneurship program is still in “the foundation stage.”

The entrepreneurship program recently made a big change in one of the academic programs that it offers. The minor in entrepreneurship and innovation, which was previously only offered to students in the school of business, will now be offered to any student in any major.

One of the goals that the program is to educate certain skills of entrepreneurship to more students across different majors in hopes of uniting students across different colleges in the university.

“You can be a startup entrepreneur, a lawyer, a musician or a doctor and all of the same skills that are being taught through this program can be of great value to anybody,” Kane said. “You would be hard pressed to find somebody who is an undergraduate that couldn’t benefit from this.”

Two students on campus have proven that learning the skills and traits the entrepreneurship program can offer can be beneficial. They became entrepreneurs themselves.

Professional writing junior Zoe Zappitell and professional writing senior Brittney Urich have recently created the Conecter App, a mobile app that connects college students trying to study or just become friends.

According to a press release by MSU Today, the two have been working on the project for about a year after coming up with the idea together when trying to think of an app that could help college students.

Zappitell said being an entrepreneur is such a unique and valuable way of thinking about things that everyone should learn the skills of owning a business. It has made her better in areas of her life that she never encountered before, she said.

“When you are an entrepreneur you do everything," Zappitell said. "You have to be a jack-of-all-trades. The communication skills you learn from having your own business is very valuable because it teaches you how to communicate your ideas and initiatives to people who matter. I’ve learned about so many different parts of business that I never thought I would know anything about just from owning my own. Things like accounting, law, social media and just all the different areas of a business.”

Zappitell said she is excited to see the growth of the entrepreneurship program at MSU.

“Entrepreneurs are people who think innovatively and you don’t have to be a specific major or involved in business to be one, but having a program that spreads across the campus that allows anybody to be innovative and lead them to pursue their own ideas is going to be incredibly inspiring for a lot of people, including me,” Zappitell said.