What if you didn't study entrepreneurship? What if you just did it?

In this episode, Jeff and Dave discuss the program he built, which now requires every student to launch a business to graduate, the six-week course where freshmen pitch for outside judges, and why Jeff spends most of his time teaching his students confidence.

The program ensures every student launches a venture before graduation, making entrepreneurship a core life skill rather than an extracurricular option. With over 20 years of experience growing companies and advising businesses, Jeff has scaled agencies to multimillion-dollar revenues and built client-side marketing programs that gained national recognition.

In this episode, Nicole Jansen sits down with Jeff Meade, Founding Director of Entrepreneurship at Paul Quinn College, where every student learns to think and act like an entrepreneur. Rather than preparing students for jobs that may not exist in a few years, Jeff and his team are equipping them to solve real-world problems, create value, embrace failure as part of the learning process, and confidently adapt to an ever-changing world.

The conversation covers Paul Quinn's venture-based learning model, a six-week boot camp where students identify problems, pitch solutions, and then build real businesses with real stakes. Jeff explains how securing six-figure seed funding changed the way students show up—turning dreams into tangible ventures.

Paul Quinn College made it a graduation requirement: 100% of students must start and operate a real business, regardless of major. Jeff Meade, Chief Innovation Officer, built the program from scratch — seed fund, corporate advisors, real customers, real failure — because employers stopped asking for graduates who could pass tests. They asked for graduates who could think and act entrepreneurially.

We dig into what qualifies as a “real business”, why they focus on solving a core problem before layering in AI, and the mindset shift students must make from “don’t fail” to “fail fast” in a safe learning environment.

In this episode of The Circuit of Success, Brett Gilliland sits down with Jeff Meade, an entrepreneur, education innovator, and venture-based learning advocate who is redefining what higher education can look like.

Jeff Meade, founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the college, said the partnership fits with the college's broader attempt to treat work as a central part of the curriculum rather than something students figure out on their own.

Toyota Motor North America's partnership with Paul Quinn is designed to equip students with job-ready leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills before they enter the workforce.

"We are constantly talking to the marketplace," Meade said. "In fact, the entrepreneurship program grew out of that. It was employers pretty much saying, we need people who can think and act like entrepreneurs. And we took that idea and ran with it."

In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Jeff Meade, Founding Director of the Every Quinnite is an Entrepreneur program at Paul Quinn College, about how the institution has embedded entrepreneurship into the operating model of the college itself.

In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Jeff Meade, the founding director of entrepreneurship at Paul Quinn College. They discuss Jeff's journey as a serial entrepreneur, the unique work readiness focus of Paul Quinn College, and the importance of fostering an entrepreneurial mindset among all students, not just business majors.

Discover how Paul Quinn College ensures that Every Student Graduates with a Business.

In this episode, Dustin sat down with Jeff Meade from Paul Quinn College (PQC), who shares how Paul Quinn is integrating entrepreneurship into the student experience—not as an elective or a club, but as a campus-wide, curriculum-infused mission.

What if your college or university decided that every undergraduate student there would be an entrepreneur, not just studying entrepreneurship but doing it? That's exactly the decision made a few years ago by the leadership at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas.