The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School

The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School serves as a cross-disciplinary new idea laboratory that educates and empowers graduates to act entrepreneurially. The Jake Jabs Center is the largest University-related entrepreneurship center in Colorado and one of the largest in the United States in terms of graduate entrepreneurship course offerings. The Center was founded in 1996 at the CU Denver Business School to foster economic development in Denver and the Rocky Mountain region. Richard and Pamela Bard provided startup funding for the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship in 1996, supporting a program that prepared future leaders for success in any business venture. The Center was renamed the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship in 2013 following a gift of $10 million from Jake Jabs, President and CEO of American Furniture Warehouse and one of Colorado’s greatest entrepreneurs.