The barriers to entrepreneurship today haven’t fallen so much as shifted. Tour the current landscape with alumni who know its peaks and valleys as founders themselves.

Precious little of the billions invested in startups each year goes to woman-owned businesses. Two management professors and two alumnae share strategies to grow female-led companies.

With inspiration from his parents’ decades-old sporting goods business, Kyle York ’05 is rewriting the playbook on tech investing.

Funding his master’s degree with credit cards “was not a sound strategy,” says the Taiwan native. He’s out to help other international students avoid such financial risks. 

The alumna is fully at home in her role as executive vice president of licensing for Scott Brothers Global (yes, as in Drew and Jonathan of HGTV).  

Eleven years on, the alumnus retains an appetite for challenge and an eye for opportunity at Ernst & Young LLP.

Gordon A. Pulsifer ’80, P ’08 ’19 brings years of corporate expertise to the university’s Board of Trustees.

Longtime supporters Steven ’73 and Christine (Smith) ’73 Manfredi donated $1.5 million to help students who face financial hardships in the final stages of completing their Bentley degree.

Education goes both ways for Bentley undergraduates, like Mary Sullivan ’22, who tutor Afghan students in English language skills.

Like any good entrepreneur, Bentley continues to keep up with — and stay ahead of — the needs of the marketplace.