Watch us build Lassonde Studios in 33 seconds in this new time-lapse video. When we started this project, we wanted to create a world-class home for student entrepreneurs and innovators. Now, the doors are open, and that dream is starting to come to life. Thanks to everyone who made it possible. We invite all students […]
[UPDATE 8-4-17: As of the first week of August, Boundary had raised more than $1.1 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Backerkit. It had raised more than $900,000 for the Prima System and another $235,000 for Boundary’s small accessory line.] In the fall of 2015, Cavin Nicholson returned to the University of Utah to […]
While most startup companies are lucky to work in a dirty garage, 17 student startups at the University of Utah have space this summer at the new Lassonde Studios building. The teams are startups-in-residence in the Company Launch program provided by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a nationally ranked division of the David Eccles School of […]
A trio of University of Utah students, Daniel Ruales, Josiah Purss and Ryan Bliss, arrived in New York City on Tuesday morning where they have begun a series of Uber rides through 16 cities across the United States until they reach their final destination in San Francisco. The students met last year when Bliss was […]
If you asked an average college student, “How do you spend your free time?,” you will usually get the answer, “I have no free time.” However, if you ask Aaron Hsu and Kepler Sticka-Jones, the founders of Blerp, the same question, they will tell you that they are working to build “the world’s biggest soundboard app.” […]
“I am a simple man with complex ambitions,” said Vitaliy Mahidov explaining his journey as an entrepreneur. Mohidov is a Ukraine native who graduated in 2016 with an MBA from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, where he launched his Wi-Fi audio company, CloviTek. “Difficult is an easy word to describe […]
A life-long love affair with cold brew coffee started for Darby Bailey McDonough when she moved to Los Angeles to work in the film and music industries in her early twenties. Fast forward to her working with three of her brothers’ successful coffee businesses in Salt Lake City and she continued to choose cold brew as […]
While other university students are spending the summer traveling the world, exploring the outdoors and sleeping in, four student startup teams at the University of Utah are engaged in an intense program. By the end of the summer, they all hope to have grown substantially and to be selling their products. The startups are: Coffee […]
We talked to the best student entrepreneurs in the state to find out what tips had for other aspiring business owners during the final awards and showcase event for the 2017 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge and High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. We asked them what they learned during the year participating in these statewide, business model and […]
In late 2015 Daniel Riley posted a YouTube video of his scratch-built 1,000 watt LED flashlight. Within four days of being posted the video accumulated over 3 million views. “This proves there’s a big market out there for ultra bright LED lighting systems,” said Riley, a senior in the bachelor of University Studies program at the […]
