by Grace Hovis | Apr 8, 2018 | ENTR409: Internet Entrepreneurship, Student Voice
A key aspect of business is building a relationship with your customer. There are many ways to do this, however one way that I find interesting is the idea of storytelling. This is a business method that can help to create a lasting relationship between business and...
by Mark Sotomayor | Mar 25, 2018 | Challenge & Inspire, Student Voice
On March 14th, I traveled to Haiti to learn firsthand about the Haitian Tree Reintroduction Program, or HTRIP with our tree-planting partner, HaitiFriends. HaitiFriends is the incredible organization who fulfills the “Plant A Tree” portion within our...
by Levi Roberts | Mar 25, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
Hey there! My name is Levi & I’m a co-founder of the military upcycling startup Chute. As we approach our first round of product testing scheduled for next week, let’s take a moment to reflect on how exactly we got here. Enter mid-October 2017 on a typical...
by Travis Mattson | Mar 22, 2018 | ENTR409: Internet Entrepreneurship, Student Voice
Being self-motivated is an assumed quality of a successful entrepreneur. Starting your own online business, creating a product or producing an online service requires a particular set of skills and I am going to list a few. (Obviously, a successful entrepreneur is not...
by Levi Roberts | Mar 21, 2018 | Student Voice, Uncategorized, VentureLab
Do you see the tsunami of opportunity approaching? I’m speaking, of course, of the Social Entrepreneurship Revolution. Generations Y and Z created a trend during the 2010’s of socially conscious for-profit businesses. Companies like Warby Parker and...
by Madeline Williams | Mar 21, 2018 | Student Voice, VentureLab
The Graphrite was a tool that the founding member, Keith Meikrantz, a senior mechanical engineer, created in order to sketch graphs for problems on homework and exams. Over the past year a team has formed around Keith’s idea which includes a computer engineering lead,...