A club for the resourceful.
The Entrepreneurship Club gathers people working on businesses where scarcity is inherent. Our charge is twofold: celebrate the art of scrappy, cash-flow-positive building — and make every member meaningfully more likely to succeed by sharing tips, resources, and introductions across the cohort.
We build businesses without lavish funds. Constraint sharpens the product and the operator.
Revenue first, runway later. We optimize for businesses that pay for themselves quickly.
Tactics, intros, playbooks. We aggregate what works so every member has better odds.
Why "entrepreneur."
From the French entre (between) and prendre (to take): to take the space between things. To find a gap that others walked past and persevere there long enough to create something of value that didn't exist before.
That definition — not the venture-capital one — is the club we want to run. We are skeptical of the cult of large rounds, prestige-by-deck, and the idea that the best businesses are always the most expensive ones to start. The most interesting founders we know solved a real problem, charged money for it on day one, and grew from there.
Practical, recurring, useful.
Small, recurring dinners where members share what they're working on, what's broken, and what they need help with this week.
Roll-up-your-sleeves blocks for cold outreach, pricing decisions, hiring debates, and shipping. Bring a laptop and a problem.
Sessions with alumni and visiting operators who've actually built profitable businesses, focused on the practical, not the inspirational.
Our flagship gathering each November — keynotes, panels, and workshops on building real businesses under real constraints.
A shared, member-only repository of contracts, decks, cold-email templates, hiring rubrics, and vendor recommendations.
First customers, candidate referrals, design partners, mentors. The club's most useful asset is the address book it pools together.
Built by founders, for founders.
The HBS Entrepreneurship Club was founded in 2025 by a group of students who noticed something missing: a community for founders building real businesses — not just pitch decks. We wanted a space where the conversations were about pricing, cold outreach, and hiring your first employee, not about raising the biggest round.
In our first year, we launched the Entrepreneurship Summit, a full-day gathering that brought together over 400 founders, operators, and investors. The Summit featured keynotes from founders who built profitable businesses from scratch, panels on AI for real businesses, and workshops on the mechanics of growth.
Today, the club runs year-round programming — founder dinners, working sessions, operator office hours, and a shared resource library. We are a small team with a big ambition: make every HBS founder meaningfully more likely to succeed.