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Welcome to Florida State University's official entrepreneurship and innovation podcast, The InNOLEvation® Mindset! Hosted by Mark McNees and powered by the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. This podcast features audio and video versions of our podcast, which highlights student and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators from FSU.
Get inspired by the next generation of young business leaders and hear their inside stories. Learn from faculty who teach entrepreneurship and innovation courses at FSU as they share key insights.
On this channel, you'll find:
-Full video episodes of our podcast conversations with founders of startups born at FSU
-Business advice and thought leadership from FSU professors focused on entrepreneurship
-Fireside chats and interviews recorded live with enterprising alumni making their mark
-Special segments and speaker events at FSU focused on innovation
Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a current business owner, or you just love hearing success stories - subscribe now to see inspiring individuals daring to turn ideas into reality. With new episodic content added regularly, The Innovation Mindset podcast tells tales of vision, grit, failure, and triumph straight from the FSU community.
This channel visually brings the podcast to life with photos, graphics, and video. Join us by subscribing if you bleed garnet and gold!
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Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026
58 min
InNOLEvation® Mindset Host Mark McNees sits down with May Wang, Student Program Coordinator at FSU’s Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, about how she supports student entrepreneurs through co-curricular opportunities such as mentoring, workshops, competitions, and grant funding. They break down the two-semester InNOLEvation® Challenge, including its stages, AI-driven planning tools, open workshops, finalist banquet, and the use of outside judges. May shares 2024–2025 activity numbers (300+ students mentored, 100+ events, 2,000+ participants), highlights programs like Ideathon, microgrants (over $50,000 awarded; up to $5,000 each), Mentor Night, Market Wednesday tables, and the Entrepreneurship Expo. She also introduces StartupTree and the new InNOLEvation Marketplace directory. They discuss resilience and coachability, and May explains iGEM’s structure, FSU’s recent gold medals, and efforts to streamline commercialization pathways.
00:00 Meet May Wang
00:42 What Student Programs Do
01:57 InNOLEvation® Challenge Overview
03:04 Stages Tools And Workshops
05:20 Finals Banquet And Judges
07:06 Podcast Origin Story
10:47 Year Round Programs By Numbers
11:46 Ideathon And Community Outreach
17:06 StartupTree Opportunity Hub
20:24 Microgrants And Free Funding
23:38 Competitions Prize Money
25:45 Market Wednesday Tables
26:47 Mentor Night Networking
28:49 FSU Funding Support
29:47 Entrepreneurship Expo
33:32 Resilience And Feedback
40:34 Pitching Skills And Badges
43:11 Innovation Marketplace Launch
45:41 iGEM Program Overview
50:47 Building Commercialization Pathways
53:56 Advice And Closing Thoughts
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