Video: State’s Top Business Recruiter Helping Student Start-ups

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, Miss. (WCBI) –A new business center at Mississippi State University is getting some help from the State’s top business recruiter.

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach (CEO) at MSU’s College of Business opened this Spring.

The Center provides space and professional expertise to students who want to start their own businesses.

Now, Bulldog entrepreneurs can also get one on one mentoring from some of the top business minds in the State.

Glenn McCullough, the executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, sees this an opportunity to build the State’s business future.

” We at the Mississippi Development Authority are very excited, because this is a chance for Mississippians to build a business right here at home. Some of the greatest businesses anywhere started in Mississippi. They developed deep roots, and they grew, flourished, and that is how we take entrepreneurship spirit and meet needs.”

McCullough is serving as the C-E-O’s first Executive in Residence.