LockerDome CEO and cofounder Gabe Lozano, who spoke recently at Olin Business School, shares some of the credit for attracting investors with students at Olin. Student teams in one of the school’s venture consulting courses worked closely with LockerDome’s CFO, Mark Lewis, on market and financial analysis research projects this semester.
Independence. Creativity. Money. Those are the benefits associated with successful entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. But is being an entrepreneur really more lucrative than working for a salary? And who is best cut out to succeed? A new study by Professor Ross Levine of the Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group answers both of these questions.
A Taos, N.M., musician, working with a Sandia National Laboratories scientist, has created a way to make music without the physical skill normally needed to play an instrument.
School of Dentistry researcher revealed details of protective vaccine against MRSA other Staphs to audience of venture capitalists and biotech entrepreneurs.
The University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University are collaborating on an educational program aimed at commercializing university research and fostering innovation locally and nationally, thanks to a three-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The media called it "The Twitter Predictor," and some scoffed at the idea that by analyzing activity on the social media tool one could predict economic markets like the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But today, Indiana University associate professor Johan Bollen's work received a rare form of validation: a United States patent.
Boise State University has joined an elite group of research universities that have a launched a start-up company after licensing an online gaming platform developed by university faculty to a new venture, GoGo Labs, that will introduce the software product to the marketplace.
Washington University’s business, engineering and law schools are collaborating on a new course in 2013 that will embed students in the center of the thriving entrepreneur community in downtown St. Louis. Students will trade their campus classroom for working space at T-REx, a new St. Louis tech incubator that offers startup companies affordable offices in the historic Railway Exchange Building.
In their new book, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in China, Ting Zhang, research assistant professor in the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business economic research center, the Jacob France Institute, and her co-author Roger R. Stough, vice president for research and economic development and professor of public policy at George Mason University, present a groundbreaking analysis of the existing economic dynamics and factors contributing to entrepreneurship in China.
Case Western Reserve University’s entrepreneurial tradition got a boost. Inspiring entrepreneurship as a viable career path takes a major step forward with the appointment of Bob Sopko as director of the university’s Blackstone LaunchPad (BLP)—a program for helping students turn their ideas into thriving businesses.
Baldwin Wallace University has opened the doors to a new campus program that encourages young people to pursue entrepreneurship as a career and to turn untested ideas into real business ventures. Some 57 students have signed up since the opening, with 33 venture ideas in the pipeline.
New law school program helps small businesses expand internationally while providing students with real-world problem solving, understanding of evolving U.S. trade regulations.
New research from Creighton University College of Business professor and consumer advocate William Duckworth, Ph.D., released today compares technology protection plans from 12 different retailers, providing consumers with an easy-to-use reference guide for holiday shopping. The study comes just five months after Duckworth’s iPhone app for warranty shopping was released.
How do entrepreneurs bounce back from uncertainty and decline, and start businesses ventures in challenging times? Research, based on 500 survey responses in the United States and abroad, reveals two major factors. This article describes five steps that individuals can take to learn and practice those traits.
When an expected crowd of 40,000 music festival goers descends on a historic area in downtown Starkville Friday [Nov. 2] for Bulldog Bash, one start-up company headed by an MSU alumnus is hoping to make social media history as it launches a new site called YeHive.
What began five years ago as a classroom assignment to start and run a business for three days and $40 has become one of the hottest ventures among the next generation of entrepreneurs at Wake Forest University.
“Not restricting entrepreneurship to a business school setting is one of things that sets Wake Forest apart,” said Polly Black, the center’s director. “The high-touch model Wake Forest has gives students easy access to faculty. We teach the students to learn by doing, and to apply the skills they learn in the classroom to new ventures. Our faculty not only teaches the subjects academically, but mentors students to grow their ideas and persevere.”
Twenty-three military veterans who have experienced physical or mental disabilities during post-9/11 military service will arrive at Florida State University this week to acquire new entrepreneurial skills that will help them start or grow their own small businesses.
The Jump Start our Business Start-ups (JOBS) Act, an entrepreneurship bill signed into law April 5 by President Barack Obama, could help open an entirely new class of investor to a process they largely have been held out of, says an expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Talent contests are abundant these days. Whether it’s singing, dancing or cooking, it seems someone is always on the lookout for the next “super star.” WalMart Stores, Inc., have even entered the fray, announcing a reality-show like plan to find the next “it” product, a move an innovation expert at Washington University in St. Louis applauds.
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