Whether you want to work on a class project or get back into your favorite hobby, the Make Space at Lassonde Studios has all the tools you need to be successful in your endeavors. There are always Make program mentors here to help. The Make Space is open for use to all University of Utah […]
Rachyll Faeth, a marketing and entrepreneurship student at the University of Utah, and her brother Jonny Faeth, a design student are “helping the Earth in every way they can,” through their startup company, PureWare. As they were sitting in Miller Cafe at Lassonde Studios one day, they watched as people grabbed plastic utensils and then […]
Entrepreneurship is perhaps one of the most invigorating fields you can participate in. It gives you the opportunity to create something brand new and give it to the world. The creation of something new is by no means an easy task, there are many hurdles along the way. In response to knowing the daunting task […]
Pitchbook is a new business research database from the Marriott Library. PitchBook contains information on private equity deals, venture capital deals, mergers, acquisitions and more. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, find real-time data on deals and gather information on investors and competitors. Things you can do with Pitchbook Find valuation or financing of companies such […]
Troy D’Ambrosio is a serial entrepreneur, assistant dean at the David Eccles School of Business and executive director of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, which have a top 10 ranked program for entrepreneurship. He has been deeply engaged with countless startups companies as a founder, investor and mentor. D’Ambrosio knows what it takes to go from […]
Amber Barron, a student at the U studying material sciences and engineering, has created the first completely biodegradable menstrual pad. She worked on this project with current team members Amelia Heiner and Aruna Dhungel and former team members Alicia Dibble, Sarai Patterson, Ashlea Patterson and Ben Bradford. Working with Professor Jeff Bates, the team first […]
For most of us, getting stuck at a stoplight is a mild annoyance. For Mark Pittman, a JD-MBA graduate from the U, it was the start of a business opportunity. While sitting at a stoplight in 2014, Pittman thought of ways to improve traffic patterns. While an associate in the Pierre and Claudette Lassonde New […]
At just 14 years old, Olivia Washburn, a ninth grader at the American Heritage School, already has a head start on solving an important problem. Her invention, the Noisy NICU Cap, protects premature newborn babies from auditory damage. When Washburn learned that more than 70 percent of babies in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) […]
Twenty student startups are hard at work this summer in the Company Launch program at Lassonde Studios. They are working together to refine their products, build their teams, make money, change the world and everything in-between. The founders come from all majors and backgrounds. They are launching ideas from caskets and video games to fashion […]
Colton Gardner, who has a bachelor’s in finance from the U, co-founded Neighbor.com in 2016 to address the need of finding local storage that is both practical and affordable. He founded the company with Brigham Young University students Preston Alder and Joseph Woodbury. Neighbor is a platform that allows people to sell access to their […]
