The Utah Entrepreneur Series concluded with Cowboy Kolaches winning a $40,000 cash prize offered by competition sponsor Zions Bank. The cash award was the grand prize for the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, which is the third and final event in the Utah Entrepreneur Series, a student-run division of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Cowboy [...]
The Utah Entrepreneur Series 2013-2014 season will culminate Tuesday with the awarding of a $40,000 grand prize offered by Zions Bank. This cash prize will be given to the winner of the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, a statewide student business plan competition and the final event of the UES series. The Utah Entrepreneur Series is a division of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and David Eccles [...]
iPay2x, a University of Utah student-created business, walked away with $5,000 at this year’s techTITANS idea competition, thanks to their new mobile-payment platform. The iPay2x team created a platform that allows buyers to search for the best product for their needs based on price, inventory, and brand. Users can pay for the product using their mobile device, and merchants can use the technology for [...]
The fine folks at the Lassonde Institute passed on this report from their recent Student Entrepreneur Conference, the kick-off event for the Utah Entrepreneur Series: The Student Entrepreneur Conference (SEC) earlier this month quickly sold out, and more than 300 students from universities across Utah attended the event held at eBay's Draper campus. The conference is an introductory event for the Utah Entrepreneur Series [...]