With the help of the Master of Business Creation program at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, Susma Gurung is pursuing her childhood dream. Since she was a kid, Gurung has been passionate about fashion. Growing up in Salt Lake City, Gurung scoured thrift shops for the perfect pieces. While she loved […]
Calling all collectors: Category One Games has just what you’ve been looking (and looking and looking and looking) for. Category One specializes in out-of-print collectible card games. From Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, they host over 160 games on their site. “No other online or physical game store carries a large selection of […]
Founder Kian Torimi is working to change the way people invest in real estate with his startup Yubedo. It provides an easy-to-use interface that has highly detailed and easily digestible information on a vast range of properties. He is growing the company in the Master of Business Creation (MBC) program at the University of Utah’s […]
Everyone agrees that growing a business requires dedication, vision, and both strong leadership as well as a committed workforce to be successful. Yet one of the unfortunately overlooked developments in the last few decades has been how important sustainability has become to professional environments that used to relegate their environmental considerations to the backburner, or […]
Erik Smith, the founder of Board Budder, a company specializing in 100% plant-based snowboard and ski wax, is not just creating a product: he’s pioneering a movement toward sustainable and eco-friendly practices in the snow sports industry. He is working toward this goal and growing his business in the Master of Business Creation (MBC) program […]
Sometimes we think our lives are miserable and we don’t have enough. No matter how bad it is, there is always someone who has it worse. The biggest lesson I had is that we always should be grateful for whatever situation we have. Coming from a poor environment, I grew up without basic resources, sitting […]
Endless opportunities and innovation possibilities exist for companies to take on. However, most companies have only so many resources to use, so the trick is identifying the ideas with the most potential. How can companies decipher ideas and find the best ones? An up-and-coming technology, artificial intelligence, can help with this. In a workshop entitled […]
The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a top-10 ranked program at the University of Utah, and the David Eccles School of Business awarded over $1.5 million in scholarships and tuition waivers to over 140 student entrepreneurs for the 2023-24 academic year. Most of the scholarships come with the opportunity to gain leadership skills and experience while managing […]
The University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business is ranked No. 2 for undergraduate and No. 3 for graduate entrepreneurship education in the West in new rankings from the Princeton Review for 2024. The rankings are the latest in a series of recent top rankings and awards for entrepreneurship programs at the Eccles School. […]
Five student startup teams received $4,480 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the round ending in October 2023. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final pitch event for regular grants was held at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, free food, and public voting to determine who received […]
