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Persistence, Passion, Vision: Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur
As graduation day looms ever closer, many students are turning their focus toward securing that first job that will launch them into the career of their dreams. Another increasingly viable option is creating a startup, building the career of their…
Inc. Calls iSchool Professor’s Book Among Eight Best Reads for 2018
Inc. just released it’s Top 8 Reads of 2018, dubbing iSchool Professor Carl Schramm’s “Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do” among them. The book steers clear of the high-flying Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, staying mostly with unknown stories…
Syracuse University Research Team Advances to Genius NY Competition Finals
A project being developed by College of Engineering & Computer Science Professor Utpal Roy and Ph.D. student Yunpeng Li is one of six finalists in the Genius NY 2018 Competition. The Genius NY program is the world’s largest business competition for…
Hult Prize Winners Announced
Student startups Farm to Flame Energy and Drop Top won first and second place, respectively, in the Syracuse campus qualifier for the prestigious Hult Prize, hosted by the Blackstone LaunchPad at Bird Library this week. Farm to Flame will now…
NYSSTLC Helps Biotech Firm Traverse Commercialization’s ‘Valley of Death’
The realm of technology commercialization is fond of its geographical metaphors. Researchers and entrepreneurs who seek to make their discoveries commercially viable talk of intellectual property “landscapes,” “routes” or “paths” to market, as well as technical and regulatory “milestones.” But…
‘Film Tasting’ Celebrates Entrepreneurial Spirit of SU Creatives
Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of Syracuse University student filmmakers at a “Film Tasting” event to sample some of this season’s best student films and animations, from shorts to featurettes. The popup student film and animation showcase will take place at…
Blackstone LaunchPad Hosts Syracuse Qualifier for Hult Prize Competition
The Blackstone LaunchPad at Bird Library will host a Dec. 11 campus qualifier for the Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for the creation of new social businesses. Known as “The Nobel Prize for student startups,” the Hult Prize…
Physics Ph.D. Student Builds Successful Research Company
Aaron Wolfe expects to finish up his Ph.D. in physics this semester. He has been working on his doctorate since 2011 and should have been done by now, he says, but a few things have gotten in the way—like helping…
Impact Prize Winners Announced
A panel of area civic leaders this week announced the winners of the first Impact Prize competition at Syracuse University. Winners were selected for the most innovative and implementable ideas to help solve civic, environmental, economic or other public challenges,…
Whitman Entrepreneurship Programs Ranked in Top 20 by The Princeton Review
The Whitman School‘s entrepreneurship programs offers one of the best programs for students aspiring to launch their own businesses according to The Princeton Review. The education services company named the school’s undergraduate entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises program #16 and the graduate program…