• Whopathon

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    Launch a real digital business, organization, or community in a weekend! Join us at the Skandalaris Center for Whopathon, a build-and-launch hackathon where you’ll create and publish a live digital business on Whop, a marketplace that acts as your technical co-founder and distribution engine. No coding. No prior experience required.   Why Whopathon? In 48…

  • Leading the Handoff: Preparing Your Business for New Leadership

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    Interested in learning how to prepare your business for a leadership transition? This session will focus on how to ready your business for new owners, document essential knowledge, and build systems.

  • From Idea to Insight: Customer Discovery for Startups

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    With the rise of generative AI models, it’s never been easier to start building. But how do you know what to build? And how do you know if what you built solves a problem in a better way? That’s the realm of applied research in the form of customer discovery. It can help you better…

  • Launchpad Info Session

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    Skandalaris Launchpad is a 10-week immersive startup development program aimed at serving the WashU student and alumni community. Our program consists of two cohorts —Incubator and Accelerator — designed to provide resources, programming, and support to startups to reach their next milestone. The deadline to apply is February 6 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Check out…

  • Fox Friday: Skandalaris Center Ideabounce®

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    Design isn’t adjacent to entrepreneurial work. It’s central to it. The Skandalaris Center will be hosting an Ideabounce x Fox Friday on January 30th, workshopping entrepreneurial and business ideas with students across WashU. The goal of the session will be evolving our understanding of how to creatively pitch and prototype within the fast-paced world of…

  • Value Proposition Workshop

    Skandalaris Center, Mallinckrodt 128 6465 Forsyth Blvd #128, St. Louis, MO 63105

    Join us at the Skandalaris Center for our Value Proposition Workshop led by Christian Johnson! During this interactive session, learn how to effectively communicate your value proposition, targeting your initial customer profile. This workshop will include an interactive component so that you can implement the learnings for your idea or startup. Christian Johnson is the founder…

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