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VIDEO: 2017-18 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge Final Event
Watch our video of the Final Event & Showcase for the 2018 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, a statewide, student business model competition. Teams from universities across the state compete for the best business model and a chance to win $100,000 in cash and prizes. The grand prize is $40,000. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/uec.
‘Student Innovation @ the U’ 2018
The 2018 edition of “Student Innovation at the U” is now available. The annual publication celebrates student innovation and impact at the University of Utah. The theme this year is “11 Ways Students are Creating the Future.” Inside you will find stories about students from all parts of campus doing amazing things. Hopefully, you will also […]
Rendezvous Box: A Date Night Subscription Service
“I don’t know, what do you want to do?” Does this sound familiar when searching for date ideas? Well, a startup out of the University of Utah, led by students from the David Eccles School of Business, has solved this well-known issue. The company, Rendezvous Box, is a date night subscription service that pairs couples […]
Jay Barney Q&A: Teaching Entrepreneurial Action
Jay Barney is a strategy scholar, presidential professor of strategic management, and the Lassonde chair in social entrepreneurship in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. Barney is a global expert, receiving honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Lund in Sweden, the Copenhagen Business School […]
Your Product Isn’t as Unique as You Think
You had the idea, and you found the niche. You’re the first! There’s nothing like your product out in the market. You’ve Googled and Binged – and to your excitement – you can’t find a single competitor offering anything similar! Booyah! Smooth sailing, right? Wrong. But that’s okay. You can do something about it. We […]
Live Create Launch Podcast: Jaron Hall, Founder of Utah Maids
Jaron Hall is our guest in this edition of the Live Create Launch Podcast. Our host Gavin Van Wagoner talks to Hall, the founder of Utah Maids and recent graduate from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Listen for insights into the startup process and being a young entrepreneur […]
Live Create Launch Podcast: Jay Barney, Strategy Scholar & Professor
Jay Barney is our guest in this edition of the Live Create Launch Podcast. Our host Gavin Van Wagoner talks to Barney, a strategy scholar and presidential professor in the Entrepreneurship & Strategy Department at David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Listen for tips and insights into business strategy and the […]
Tourism App Wins Bootcamp Competition
Have you ever been somewhere new and wished you had a local to show you around? If the answer is yes, you need to know about The Local. It’s a new tourism app and website being developed by a team of students at the University of Utah. They won first place in the spring 2018 […]
Utah No. 1 for Entrepreneurship, says Amazon
In a new study, Amazon ranked Utah No. 1 in a list of the Top 10 Most Entrepreneurial States with the most small and medium-sized businesses per capita selling on Amazon. “It is exciting to see Utah at the top of our list ahead other great entrepreneurial states like California and New York,” said Nicholas Denissen, […]