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Get inside the head of Threadless founder Jake Nickell

Posted by Anonymous on April 29, 2011 at 12:27 PM MST
Threadless founder Jake Nickell is one of the few presenters coming to Arizona
Get inside the head of Threadless founder Jake Nickell at the Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation this summer

Mark your calendars for a unique opportunity coming to the Valley: see rockstars like Jake Nickell, the founder of Threadless; Zach Smith, co-founder and director of research and development at MakerBot; and Mark Hansen, the director of business development for LEGO Universe. These are just a few characters in an exciting keynote cast.

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ASU senior opens collaborative space to bind students, businesses and art

Posted by Anonymous on April 28, 2011 at 2:43 PM MST
Open Source Project
A view of the space at Open Source Project in Tempe.

Michael Witham is bold, brash, in-your-face and even admits, sometimes he walks the line between "gray and black."

And don't try to give him the title of entrepreneur. He's just here to get things done.

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Grow your network: Young Entrepreneur Council

Posted by Anonymous on April 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM MST
Arizona State University student entrepreneur talks with a faculty member

For students looking to build a national peer network, check out  the Young Entrepreneur Council (Y.E.C.), a leading resource for becoming a young, successful business owner. Students can volunteer their time, and their minds, to building and being a part of a blossoming national youth entrepreneurship community.

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Tyler Ross, undergraduate, W.P. Carey School of Business

Posted by Anonymous on April 26, 2011 at 12:45 PM MST
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Undergraduate ASU student Tyler Ross. Photo by Kyle Patton

Tyler Ross is an undergraduate in the W.P. Carey School of Business and the founder of Pyramid of Pixels, a unique online advertising platform he started in February 2011. Looking to help pay for school and support his family business, Ross created a one-of-a-kind website that offers advertising space for all kinds of businesses. Through viral marketing and hosting pages through an integrated blog, Ross helps drive customers to businesses all over the world one click at a time. Ross has been spotlighted on Fox News as well as in The State Press, ASU's student newspaper. 

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Edson entrepreneurs working to put 3D into classroom displays

Posted by Anonymous on April 25, 2011 at 3:30 PM MST
Boson Inc. Student Entrepreneurs Arizona State University
Boson Inc. allows a computer monitor to show 3D images that can be viewed with “passive” glasses, while battery-powered “active” glasses are required to see the images on a large screen and projector on loan from Christie Digital.

For two guys with a razor-sharp vision of the future, Christian Stewart and Nicolas Kane sure do spend a lot of time wearing funny glasses.

The ASU student entrepreneurs and co-founders of Boson Inc. are spending two days at SkySong this week demonstrating the 3D content and systems they believe could dramatically change the way teachers teach and students learn.

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When life gives you lemons, volunteer at Lemonade Day!

Posted by Anonymous on April 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM MST
Lemonade Cups
Photo by hjhipster

Lemonade Day Glendale, AZ, a community event created by Prepared 4 Life, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, teaches kids the skills they need to be successful in the future.

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No glamour and no fairytales: simply the truth about life as a founder

Posted by Sidnee Peck on April 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM MST

 

Last week I received a great gift.

Amidst all of the voiced complaints about the prices of books for college courses, I received a box full of books to give away to my entrepreneurship students. No strings attached, simply the desire to educate aspiring entrepreneurs. Who would do such a thing, you ask? Carol Roth. Carol Roth did such a thing.

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Seeking student bloggers for the summer!

Posted by Anonymous on April 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM MST
Students at computers

Interested in sharing your views about entrepreneurship with the world? The Office of University Initiatives is seeking students for the upcoming summer to contribute blogs to the Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University blog (http://entrepreneurship.asu.edu/news-and-blog)!

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Summit lays out plans to transform Arizona education through innovation

Posted by Anonymous on April 19, 2011 at 2:41 PM MST
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Joel Klein, EVP, News Corp and former Chancellor of New York City Department of Education, speaks to the crowd at the Education Innovation Summit at ASU Skysong. Photo by Kyle Patton

Educators, entrepreneurs and investors agreed that when it comes to the future of education in America, thinking big is a necessity, they said as they came together for the Education Innovation Summit at ASU SkySong in early April.
      

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Maker Bench opens doors, provides resources to Valley builders

Posted by Anonymous on April 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM MST
Maker Bench
David Uhlman, center, CEO and founder of Maker Bench, talks to event attendees at an event at Hackspace at ASU Skysong in Scottsdale. Maker Bench is a collaborative work space geared toward engineers and builders. Photo by Kyle Patton

Underneath the technical aspects, the advanced hardware, electric work and engineering, David Uhlman's goal is a simple one.
      
"Let's just get together and build something," Uhlman says. "Less talking. More doing."
      

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