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Entrepreneurial Lessons from the WashU Basketball Court

Entrepreneurship is a lot like playing basketball. The nerves going into a pitch meeting are similar to the nerves going into a big game; there’s performance pressure, and while you can grind to get ready, you can’t grind through a...

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Global Impact Award Spotlight: Top Tutors for Us

Meet Global Impact Award Finalist Top Tutors for Us, a startup that connects Black students with tutors who look like them in order to help students build academic skills and improve their college admissions test scores. Founder Angelica Harris (BU...

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WashU Student Enterprise Program Owners Ink Business Sales

The WashU Student Enterprise Program (StEP) provides a unique opportunity for students to own a business on campus, serving the university community while gaining real-world experience that supplements the business and entrepreneurial skills they acquire in the classroom. Each StEP...

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Global Impact Award Finalist Spotlight: ALLUMIN8

Meet Global Impact Award Finalist ALLUMIN8, a startup pioneering a new era of surgical implants with Therapeutic Hardware™. The company began from a deeply personal experience after Founder Alyssa Huffman (MBA ’21) witnessed multiple family members suffer devastating spinal fusion...

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Global Impact Award Finalist Spotlight: WattShift

Meet Global Impact Awards Finalist WattShift, a software startup working to optimize smart energy devices for grid incentive schemes. Founder Will Blanchard (EN ’18) began his entrepreneurial career while he was an engineering student at WashU; his first venture, CyberPowered...

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