The FY 2018 Annual Report is now available (see link below) for the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, an interdisciplinary division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. The report highlights student startup activity and programs at Lassonde Studios, the new home for student entrepreneurs at the U. Highlights for the year […]
Registration for the 2018-19 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge is now open. The statewide business model competition is open to all university students in Utah. Teams compete for $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes, including a $40,000 grand prize. The registration deadline is Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The competition is managed by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, an […]
Seven student startup teams received $6,100 in milestone grants at the monthly Get Seeded Final Pitch Event at Lassonde Studios on Nov. 26. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. Get Seeded is a monthly milestone grant funding program open to all college students in Utah. The first step is to apply […]
Timing is everything when launching a new business or growing in additional directions. Business leaders benefit from using a quick tool for assessing whether now is the right time to make strategic changes. Where can one find such a tool to make a quick, accurate and impactful decisions? The answer is found in a simple […]
Spend the Summer 2019 semester in Europe by joining the Global Entrepreneur Program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Participating students will gain entrepreneurial experience while creating a startup or innovation of their own, being taught and mentored by U faculty members, and visiting some of Europe’s most […]
We had a great October at Lassonde Studios. We hosted many events, including a Get Seeded pitch event, workshops, a zine-making event, a salsafest, Make It activities, a women’s entrepreneur panel, dinner with a CEO and more. Browse these photos to see for yourself. (Don’t forget to tag yourself and your friends!). Find upcoming events […]
All incoming and current students at the University of Utah are welcome to “live, create, launch” at Lassonde Studios. The five-story building is dedicated to student entrepreneurship and innovation. Students can live here and get involved in many programs to bring their ideas to life. Residents join the Lassonde 400, a community of student […]
Our Lassonde 400 residential program hosts a variety of events. In this video, we feature one of the dinner events hosted on the upper floors of Lassonde Studios. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/studios.
The University of Utah jumped six places to be ranked No. 9 for undergrad entrepreneur studies among all schools in the country in the latest survey released by The Princeton Review today. The U also improved four places in the survey to be ranked No. 19 for graduate entrepreneur studies. Entrepreneur programs at the U […]
The Full-Time MBA program at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business received a No. 2 ranking for entrepreneurship by Bloomberg Businessweek in their listing of the Best Business Schools for 2018 released today. Overall, the Eccles School jumped 20 spots in the ranking to No. 36 in the country, and it received […]
