Join us for the Awards & Showcase Event for the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC) and High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (HSUEC) at Lassonde Studios at the University of Utah on Saturday, April 15, at 4-6 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend the event to meet the best aspiring entrepreneurs in Utah. Teams […]
Vote now for the best college startup video in the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, a statewide business model competition open to all university students. Voting is open March 28 to April 14, 2017, at 5 p.m. The team with the most votes will receive $2,500 at the UEC Awards and Showcase Event on April 15, 2017, […]
Utah’s best college entrepreneurs are competing for $100,000 in cash and prizes, including a $40,000 grand prize, in the 2017 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, one of the biggest student-business competitions in the country. Today, the competition got a lot more interesting with the top 20 teams being announced. Hundreds of students from all colleges in the […]
The Feb. 21. deadline is coming up fast for your chance to win some serious equity-free cash for your business idea. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah is hosting the annual Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, which is open to all Utah universities to enter. The competition is sponsored by Zions Bank. It is […]
Student startup Portal Power won $5,000 and first place in the 2016-2017 University of Utah Opportunity Quest (OQ) business-plan competition. Ten collegiate teams advanced to the final judging and awards event. The competition is managed by students at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah and sponsored by Zions Bank. Other top teams included Neiybor and Grace […]
When it’s a matter of life or death, it’s important to constantly improve the industry. Which is why, when University of Utah faculty member and anesthesiologist Sean Runnels had an idea for a safer upgrade to breathing tubes and the process of inserting them, it wasn’t difficult to recruit students for his team. He reached […]
Browse our photos from the 2016 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. In this annual business-model competition, teams compete for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes. The competition is sponsored by Zions Bank.
Watch this overview video from the 2016 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. Teams compete for $100,000 in cash and prizes in this annual, statewide, business-model contest. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/uec.
A student startup from the University of Utah won first place and the $40,000 grand prize at the annual Utah Entrepreneur Challenge tonight for their design of a new endotracheal tube that makes it easier for medical professionals to perform endotracheal intubation, a risky procedure necessary for reopening airways for patients unable to breathe on […]
The Top-20 teams in the 2016 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC) are competing for more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes, including a $40,000 grand prize and a $2,500 prize for People’s Choice best video. The final Showcase & Awards Event is Saturday, April 9. All are welcome to attend at 4-6 p.m. UEC is one […]
