A University of Delaware graduate who started several successful companies and founded the school’s entrepreneurship program received the 2019 Pete du Pont Freedom Award last night. Charlie Horn created the nation’s first retail-based discount prescription drug program and 5Lights, LLC, a private equity business incubator and management firm. He and his wife Patty established the Horn Entrepreneurship
On January 12th, 2018, Sherry Hoskinson was inducted as a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow at the United States Association for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) conference in Los Angeles, CA. Selection as a Longenecker Fellow is the highest recognition that the USASBE bestows on individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development, furtherance
In 1998, the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship (then, the H.N. & Frances C. Berger Entrepreneurship Program at the Karl Eller Center, College of Business of Public Administration) established the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Established to formally recognize the significant achievements and contributions of alumni and associates of the Karl Eller Center and Berger Entrepreneurship Program,
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“Entrepreneurs are the creative class that makes the world a better place with new inventions, new concepts,” says lifelong entrepreneur Charlie Horn, 64, whose $3 million commitment to the University of Delaware led to creating its Horn Program in Entrepreneurship. ‘I was always interested in starting my own business, but in those days [he’s a
The Lawrence M. Hecker Future of Possibility Award was created in honor of Larry Hecker. The award is to be presented each year to an individual or organization that is committed to building bright futures in the Tucson community, as Mr. Hecker has done for decades. This year, Sherry Hoskinson is honored to receive the
A new partnership Sherry Hoskinson worked on at the University of Arizona has become a national model, won an award, is the basis is of a published paper, and now is being featured at a conference. The Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) of the University of Arizona Libraries holds a valuable role in the commercialization of university
20 students have graduated from Delaware’s Summer Founders Program, a 12-week crash course, organized by UD’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship, for select college students hoping to join the next wave of innovative startups. Read the full article on Delawareonline.
We are proud to announce that effective immediately, The PBMS Group, an affiliate of Pro Private Equity, LLC has been renamed 5Lights, LLC. 5Lights represents the foundational principles we believe make an exceptional company and are composed of 12 key building blocks that working together allow companies to become iconic. 5Lights partners with the founders
