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Author: Jacqueline Mumford
Neighbor Closes a $53 Million Funding Round
Neighbor, a peer-to-peer storage company, proved that early failures don’t always determine the success of a startup. While competing in one of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute’s Get Seeded grant rounds for student entrepreneurs, Neighbor came in last place. Five years later the company has closed its $53 million Series B round of funding. Neighbor was […]
Hadley Designs: From Baby Shower Invites to Home Decor
Hadley Designs is a husband-and-wife venture specializing in stationery and gift-related products, from baby shower invites to home decor. Starting as a hobby, the couple’s custom-order wedding invitation business pivoted into selling products on Amazon and has exploded over the past few years — now, they dominate the stationery and gift categories they sell in […]
Taft Price Q&A: Entrepreneurs are Team Players
Taft Price is a clinical professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. A co-director and lecturer in the Master of Business Creation program, a partnership between Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute and the Eccles School, Price is an experienced entrepreneur. He is the co-founder […]
How Jared Pieper ‘Entrepreneured’ His Apple Career
In his senior year of undergraduate degree at the University of Utah, Jared Pieper realized something was missing in his engineering program. “The concepts were interesting, but the type of work I realized I might be doing didn’t fit my personality,” he said. “I wasn’t excited by the prospect of doing simulations by myself, sitting […]
Mura: A New Age of Smart and Empathetic Productivity Apps
Jared Collett, an entrepreneurship major at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, wants to help students like himself make goals, get things done, and de-stress with the Mura app, a productivity wellness planner. “Students are at the most pivotal, stressful times of their lives,” Collett said. “All the while, they’re relentlessly bombarded […]
Kathy Hajeb Q&A: Helping Students and Aspiring Entrepreneurs Find Their ‘Why’
Kathy Hajeb is a director at the top-10 ranked Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and associate professor for the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business. She is one of the minds behind the nationally acclaimed Lassonde Studios facility and the new Lassonde+X program, which allows university students to link any major […]
Custom Pillows for Oxygen Therapy
Many people with Down syndrome suffer from a variety of sleeping disorders. Some of these disorders, such as sleep apnea, can disturb the lungs and aggravate — or cause — other health problems. In some cases, patients refuse to wear their sleep oxygen therapy equipment. Many times, the equipment is as simple as a nasal […]
The All-About-Covid-19 App
When the pandemic began to take hold in early 2020, Joy Ji Won Oh, a Master of Information Systems student — along with the rest of the world — was at a loss. Could she go to the grocery store? Could she still take public transportation? Attend in-person class? She spent months comparing information, sifting […]
Perfect Fit for Local Designers
Computer science graduates Prince Mugisha, Ashton Bower, and Ryan Furukawa have a good eye for market trends — and fashion. In search of a capstone project they could put their hearts into, Mugisha and Furukawa thought of their friends in the clothing design industry. While they could conjure beautiful pieces and innovative style, the local […]