The University of Utah was recently ranked as the best college in the country for aspiring entrepreneurs in 2016 by LendEDU, a student loan refinancing website. It ranked the top 50 colleges in the United States for their support for young entrepreneurs. The study focused on all opportunities for students interested in entrepreneurship, not just […]
Listen to our interview with Mark Pittman, a JD-MBA graduate of the University of Utah and founder of Blyncsy, a big data company providing sensors for tracking the movement of people. Lassonde Podcast RSS
Below are the videos for the top-10 teams in the 2016-2017 University of Utah Opportunity Quest competition. Find the full competition results here. Grand Prize Winner: Portal Power Other Top-10 Teams
The Index app, created by University of Utah students, in essence is a virtual business card. It puts all of your contact information — including social media accounts— into one spot. Not only that but it creates a QR code containing all of that information so that can easily be scanned by another Index user […]
Identify, refine, resolve. This design process is followed by Evan DeGray, a Lassonde Studios resident and Multi-Disciplinary Design major at the University of Utah in nearly all of his pursuits, and it has proven worthwhile and effective in both his academic and entrepreneurial ventures. Founder of Rugged Components LLC, a company borne out of a need […]
Ashley Langell is one of the University of Utah students behind Cinluma, a company providing a portable device for treating cervical cancer. Listen to our conversation with Langell as she explains her experience as a medical-device entrepreneur. Lassonde Podcast RSS
Talk with David Toledo, the founder of Power Practical and an engineering alumnus of the University of Utah. Toledo talks about his experience starting a consumer electronics company that received $250,000 in funding from Mark Cuban on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Lassonde Podcast RSS
Listen to our interview with Kyle Gray, a University of Utah alumnus and author of “The College Entrepreneur.” In our discussion, Gray shares some of his tips and tricks for being a startup founder. Lassonde Podcast RSS
Do you dream of seeing the world and learning how to make an impact? The David Eccles School of Business has designed a study abroad program across South Korea, Japan, China and Thailand that caters to student interested in completing the Certificate in Entrepreneurship. The first semester long program of its kind, the Innovation in […]
Can you really have culture without food, or food without culture? Hossein Dadkhah and Shahrzad Jalili would say they go hand in hand, but many dining experiences may fail to present food within the appropriate cultural context. Dadkhah and Jalili share a passion for travel, along with the desire to provide people with a uniquely […]
