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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
Budding entrepreneurs get free help from local library
October 18, 2016
The free workshop at the Glendale Public Library is being hosted in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Entrepreneurship Outreach Network. Beck says “Startup School” participants will have a networking opportunity
Succeeding outside of Silicon Valley: How the rest will rise
October 16, 2016
[ASU] President [Michael] Crow is looking for entrepreneurs who will create an impact on the next generation of the American economy, and he’s not alone. In Phoenix, and other Rise
Rise of the Rest contest brings venture capital to Phoenix
October 16, 2016
Scottsdale-based medical-device startup NeoLight LLC, founded by ASU graduates in 2014, won for Skylife, a lightweight, portable device the company hopes will make treatment for infant jaundice affordable and accessible around the
New co-working space opening at SkySong
October 16, 2016
The space is located on the ground floor in SkySong 1, and is named 1951@SkySong for the year Scottsdale was incorporated. The space is a next step in ASU’s efforts to support
This Scottsdale startup received a $100K investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case
October 16, 2016
Former Arizona State University startup NeoLight LLC bet out seven other startups to win the Rise of the Rest startup pitch competition Oct. 7, receiving a $100,000 investment from AOL
Is entrepreneurialism at odds with deep thinking?
October 16, 2016
What’s the point of college? At Arizona State University, it’s often about “the entrepreneurial mindset,” as Sethuraman Panchanathan put it, who helps lead the university’s research and economic development efforts.

Special Announcement: Welcome Our 1st Prepped Fall Cohort
October 12, 2016
In Entrepreneurship + Innovation at ASU we love working with entrepreneurs from various sectors, backgrounds, and walks of life. We are always looking to innovate on our programs and offer