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Hero Week #5 and #6: Breaking Through
November 15, 2016
As things come up to a close here inside of the first session at Draper, the metaphorical train shows no sign of stopping. The past two weeks have been jam

Venture Devils Demo Day Finalists
November 14, 2016
The finalists for the Fall 2016 Venture Devils Demo Day have been announced! Last week, over 40 ASU affiliated ventures competed to present at Demo Day where the top 10 ventures

Prepped Feature: Where’s Waffle?
November 10, 2016
Name: Where’s Waffle Owners: Dustin and Elizabeth What is your company’s name and what do you make? It all started in Eugene, Oregon, where we first discovered Liege waffles. We
Glendale Public Library offers free business startup workshops
November 8, 2016
The Glendale Public Library Main Branch, 5959 W. Brown St., and Office of Economic Development have partnered with ASU’s Entrepreneurship Outreach Network to offer Startup School workshops linking innovative people

Hero Week #4: Survival
November 4, 2016
Grueling? Check. Fatiguing? Check. Worth our time? Big check. A mantra every entrepreneur should hold dear to their heart is that anything worth doing won’t be easy and that was

Venture Devil Spotlight: Cervelio
October 25, 2016
What does your venture do? Cervelio is developing software that gathers and synthesizes contextual data from sensors and content data from app user interactions, which bridges the human-machine gap faced
New Source solar panels pull clean drinking water from the air
October 20, 2016
Founder and CEO Cody Friesen is also an associate professor at Arizona State University’s School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. Zero Mass Water is the second startup to

Prepped Feature: Ceci Melendez + Cake Art Studio
October 19, 2016
We are thrilled to feature a different Prepped Food Entrepreneur each week on our blog. This week, we are featuring Ceci Melendez of Cake Art Studio. Please check back weekly

Hero Week #3: Virtual Reality, CAD and New Ideas
October 18, 2016
The first three weeks at Draper set a grueling pace in pushing boundaries while providing challenge and this week proved to be no different. In the past seven days students