# Entrepreneur

**Source**: https://city.yale.edu/entrepreneur
**Parent**: https://city.yale.edu/

An entrepreneur is someone who wants to create a venture to offer goods or services that others need or want. A venture can be a for-profit business, a nonprofit organization, or a special project or initiative that could grow into one of these.

Potential Outcomes:

- Solopreneur
- Small business owner
- Consultant
- Student-founded venture
- Join a startup
- Venture capital
- Join an external accelerator

*\*This is not an exhaustive list of potential outcomes.*

We’re here to help you take action and get your innovative ideas into the world. Tsai CITY offers several funding streams, and we can connect you to prizes and other funding sources across campus.

- [Student Exploration Fund](https://city.yale.edu/funding/student-exploration-fund)
- [Student Ecosystem Fund](https://city.yale.edu/funding/student-ecosystem-fund)
- [Student Milestone Fund](https://city.yale.edu/funding/student-milestone-fund)
- [Startup Yale Prizes](https://city.yale.edu/funding/startup-yale-prizes)

Mentoring is a key element of our work here at Tsai CITY. The best way to get started with mentoring at Tsai CITY is to sign up for office hourswith our team, which are open to all students at Yale.

- [Tsai CITY Staff Office Hours](https://city.yale.edu/mentoring)

Tsai CITY programs offer diverse entry points to innovation and entrepreneurship, from drop-in sessions to multi-week, application-only programs.

- [Community Events & Talks](https://city.yale.edu/events)
- [Innovator's Toolkit Workshops](https://city.yale.edu/programs/innovators-toolkit-workshops)
- [Venture Development Programs](https://city.yale.edu/programs/venture-development-programs)