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Whitman hosts semifinals, finals of 2011 Panasci Business Plan Competition
Social content communities where users who are passionate about, or have expertise on, a shared topic can interact; an online fighting game that allows users to upload their own drawings and watch as they come to life and battle against…
Ray von Dran Awards provide $70,000 to SU student startups at Emerging Talk
Twelve Syracuse University student startups won a combined $70,000 in seed funding at the second annual Emerging Talk conference on April 1 at the AXA Towers, Syracuse. Student companies pitched to panels of judges composed of alumni, entrepreneurs and faculty…
Student Start-up Accelerator has new name
The Syracuse Student Start-up Accelerator, an initiative that helps Central New York college students start private enterprise and nonprofit/social ventures, has been renamed. The new name for the initiative is the Raymond von Dran Innovative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator, or IDEA. …
Local minority business owner Juanita Bass is WISE Women’s Business Center success story
Juanita Bass of Juanita’s Soul Classics Inc., located in Frankfort, N.Y., is a minority-owned, local business success story that has emerged through the ongoing efforts of WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Women’s Business Center. WISE is an entrepreneurship…
Entrepreneur, makeup artist Bobbi Brown to deliver keynote at 2011 WISE Symposium
The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will welcome makeup artist Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, as the keynote speaker for the ninth annual Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE)…
EBV receives top 10 recognition from Inc. magazine for best college-based entrepreneurship programs in nation
The April issue of Inc. magazine has named the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, based at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, as one of the “10 Best-In-Class” college-based entrepreneurship courses and programs in the…
V-WISE entrepreneurship program for women veterans announces Lead Star co-founders as national spokeswomen
The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, has announced that Lead Star co-founders Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch have been named honorary spokeswomen for the 2011 Veterans as Women Igniting the…
Newhouse creates Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
Serial entrepreneur, interactive marketer Sean Branagan ’80 to be inaugural director Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has announced the creation of the Newhouse Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. Newhouse alumnus Sean Branagan ’80, a…
EBV announces addition of CorpCo as newest resource provider for program graduates
The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, the national headquarters for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, has announced that it has partnered with CorpCo, a full-service business incorporation firm, to expand the services offered to…
Near Westside Initiative Business Association experiencing tremendous growth
Encourages more business owners and entrepreneurs to join Twenty-eight neighborhood business owners and entrepreneurs attended this month’s Near Westside Initiative (NWSI) Business Association meeting at the Delavan Center in Syracuse. The meeting marked the third straight month that the group has experienced record turnout. “The…