The Zell Entrepreneurship Program at IDC Herzliya is a venture creation program for outstanding undergraduate students in their final years of the schools of law, business, communications, computer science and government at the IDC Herzliya. The program, in its eighth year, is funded generously by Sam Zell of Chicago. It allows students to take an idea and work to develop it into a business in the course of an academic year. The venture creation process is complemented by academic courses in relevant topics such as marketing, finance, financial statement analysis, psychological aspects, legal aspects, Internet entrepreneurship, branding and positioning, negotiations and leadership. In addition, each self selected team is coached by an industry expert mentor relevant to their venture. The program includes a trip to the US meant to offer the students an opportunity to see corporate America and American entrepreneurship first hand. In addition to the company visits in NYC, the students take a three day intensive entrepreneurial study program specially tailored for them at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and meet Sam Zell in Chicago. For more info, check out www.idc.ac.il/zell.