Lyda Bigelow, an associate professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business, believes in value. Value comes from many places in her highly trained eyes — as a former associate in the world of corporate finance at Kidder, Peabody & Company before beginning an illustrious career in the […]
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Spoonful: Get Cereal Delivered Anywhere on Campus
Spoonful is a student startup selling cereal by the bowl and delivers cereal anywhere at the University of Utah by using its newly release app on the Apple App Store. It sounds like a lot of fun (and it is!), but the company started as a solution to a serious problem. The company’s mission from the beginning […]
Clockwork Forge Games: Exploring the Klondike
Clockwork Forge Games is a video-game development team led by Entertainment Arts & Engineering students at the University of Utah. With the release of their first game, “Hyperborean Charter,” the team is excited to show everyone the world they’ve built. “Hyperborean Charter” takes place in the far north in a climate like the Klondike and […]
Patent Tips from the J. Willard Marriott Library
Here is a handy set of patent tips from the team at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah: Three Patent Types There are three types of patents. What kind of patent is best for your idea or prototype?: Utility patents – Granted for a process; machine or manufacture; composition of matter; […]
Get Seeded Awards $6,920 in Grants in January
Three student startup teams received $6,920 in milestone grants at the monthly Get Seeded Final Pitch Event at Lassonde Studios on Jan. 28. 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 […]
Video: Opportunity Quest 2018-19
Watch our video featuring the final judging and awards event for the University of Utah Opportunity Quest business model executive summary competition for 2018-19. Learn more about the competition here: lassonde.utah.edu/oq
PreOv Wins $5,000 at University of Utah Opportunity Quest
PreOv, a student startup developing a fertility monitoring technology that helps people with family planning, won first place and the $5,000 grand prize at the 2018-2019 University of Utah Opportunity Quest business-model, executive-summary competition today. Ten U teams advanced to the final judging and awards event. The competition is managed by students at the Lassonde […]
Top 10 Team Videos: Opportunity Quest 2018-19
Watch this video playlist to learn about the top 10 teams in the University of Utah Opportunity Quest competition for 2018-19. Opportunity Quest is a statewide business model competition. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute hosts branch OQ competitions across the state at the University of Utah and partner universities. All participants are judged by industry […]
AskManny: HSUEC Winner Feature Video
Watch this video to learn about AskManny, one of the winners of the 2018 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, statewide business idea competition. AskManny combines all the facets of planning a school dance into one easy-to-use platforms. For the students planning the dance, the app functions like a combination of Groupon and Yelp. It […]
Meet Mehrdad Yazdani: The Lead Designer Who Shaped Lassonde Studios
Looking back to when Lassonde Studios existed solely as an abstract idea, Troy D’Ambrosio, the executive director of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, can vividly recall the process of selecting the building’s architect. For hours, he’d listened to different firms present to his team and show PowerPoints full of images of similar buildings they created. Then […]