Tag: entrepreneur

Changing the landscape

Posted by on June 8, 2021

Using robotics and artificial intelligence, alumni entrepreneurs set out to transform the lawn care industry Mowing neighborhood lawns is a common summertime ritual for teens looking to earn some money. George Leno Holmes Jr. was one of those teens. The two-time Missouri S&T mechanical engineering graduate spent many St. Louis summer days mowing with his […]

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Missouri S&T student, Ph.D. graduate earn $50,000 for entrepreneurial startup idea

Posted by on December 10, 2020

A Missouri S&T student and recent Ph.D. graduate were recently awarded $50,000 to build their entrepreneurial start-up company and achieve new business goals.

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Missouri S&T student teams to compete in regional entrepreneur competition finals

Posted by on April 27, 2020

Two teams of students from Missouri S&T will compete in the final rounds of the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge 2020, a University of Missouri-Kansas City business plan and pitch competition open to university students in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.

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Student ‘shark tank’-style entrepreneur competition offers $30,000 prize

Posted by on October 29, 2019

Missouri S&T students with entrepreneurial ideas can advance their concepts and win prize money by participating in the Entrepreneur Quest (EQ) Student Accelerator, a University of Missouri System competition.

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Entrepreneurship in action as S&T students pitch ideas

Posted by on March 8, 2019

Thousands of people who suffer from Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, may soon have relief due to two Missouri S&T students’ work with glass. The two will pitch their ideas as a potential business enterprise as part of the University of Missouri System’s Entrepreneur Quest (EQ) program.

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St. Louis entrepreneur, Square co-founder Jim McKelvey to visit Missouri S&T for “rapid fire” discussion

Posted by on February 20, 2019

St. Louis entrepreneur and philanthropist Jim McKelvey, co-founder of the mobile payment platform Square, is coming to Missouri S&T next month to lead what he calls a “rapid fire” discussion about technology, startups, glassblowing and other topics.

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Missouri S&T I-Corps program to offer entrepreneurship training throughout the state

Posted by on February 11, 2019

Missouri S&T’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program is offering free workshops in Rolla, Columbia, St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, to help entrepreneurs learn how to bring their technology-based ideas and products to market.

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Missouri S&T to seek feedback from business owners and entrepreneurs

Posted by on October 1, 2018

Business owners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to complete a business needs survey from the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) at Missouri S&T.

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Two share University of Missouri Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Posted by on April 24, 2008

Paul Robinette and Ryanne Dolan are co-winners of the 2008 University of Missouri Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Robinette is a senior in computer engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dolan is a former Missouri S&T student who is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia.         

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A MySpace for the mobile generation

Posted by on January 2, 2007

UMR student-entrepreneur Benjamin Roodman is going mobile with the launch of a social networking service that integrates the Internet with cellular telephone technology.

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