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GXStudios

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 
· 3 Comments

The college version of the board game Risk. The game GoCrossCampus also known as GXC is an online game that was developed by a group of current and former Yale students. How it works is a group of students from various schools battle for territory on a map of a college campus, anything from a grassy area or a dining hall or dormitory building. They are trying to create a team based social gaming. As a start-up they raised $1 million in venture capital.

There ideas came from a desire to fuel team and school spirit against other colleges and universities. As well as against affinity groups, ultimately taking sports and college rivalries beyond the playing field or classroom test scores and onto every students laptop.

From the reviews to the left you can see that the appeal to this has grown beyond the appeal of college campuses. Professional businesses has found this as an interesting way to create some fun in the work place and some friendly competition. They currently have three functioning games that are available on their website and allow collaboration across laptop users.

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Categories : College, Online Companies, Uncategorized, Video Games

Young Tech Brothers for Good

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Thursday, November 15th, 2018 
· 3 Comments

The country of India has been one of the hottest emerging markets and with that has come the rise of many young entrepreneurs as technology and the overall wealth of the country has been on the rise.

Shravan and Sanjay brothers age 17 and 15 are the youngest of these entrepreneurs in the country of India. They are the brain behind the company GoDimension. It is a simple technological solution for the digital world. Not to mention, the digital world and digital banking has been given the credit for a lot of India’s wild economic growth. They have a vision to do good for society. Their latest app GoDonate helps facilitate the donation of food to local charities that would otherwise go to waste. I do believe we had a student in the Elevator Pitch competition who hoped to do something like this to negate the waste that is created in the restaurant industry.

These two individuals have a mission and a vision to make this world a better place. After developing 11 apps and 60,000 downloads across 60 countries the two brothers were listed in 2017 Forbes 30 under 30.

 

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Categories : App, Charity, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Power of Influencers

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Monday, November 5th, 2018 
· 2 Comments

Amanda Thomas of Luv AJ, founded the beloved jewelry and accessory company Luv AJ. Much of her success has come from her ability to use influencers like Beyonce, Gigi Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski. Being a millennial, Amanda was able to work the forefront and power of influencers on social media and these influencers followers.

Amanda has an eye of design and aesthetics she utilized Instagram to reflect her brand. Close up shots of her products with links to purchase is how she started and continues to run a successful eCommerce shop. Next, she moved to contacting and sending free jewelry to famous individuals who then would post about the product. So even without individuals being familiar with the brand Luv AJ, the millions of individuals who follow Beyonce for example would soon be familiar with the products that Luv AJ has to offer and be able to also purchase the product or products that Beyonce was wearing.

This influencer market has spread to 200 girls with a range of followers that each season are gifted jewelry in exchange for a post and a tag to Luv AJ’s page. Every post gives them access to a new audience and all owes Luv AJ to get in front of millions of Instagram users and potential customers.

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, eCommerce, Women Entrepreneurs

Box

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Monday, October 8th, 2018 
· 1 Comment

Maybe Aaron Levie’s story will inspire us in ENTR 101 to take the elevator pitch business ideas to the next level. During Aaron’s time at USC he was assigned a project to come up with  a business idea. Taking this project he examined cloud storage options and after putting in the extra effort and contacting organizations on how they were storing their data and content, Levie came up with an idea.

He saw that the cloud storage market was fragmented. He saw an opportunity and built an online file storage business as a tool for businesses and individuals to access and store documents and files. After his fall semester junior year, Levie took a leave of absence to launch Box.

At Box’s beginning stage, it was a cloud that companies and individuals could pay to store their their files in the cloud. Being bold, Levie secured an angel investment from Mark Cuban himself after sending a cold e-mail to the billionaire. In 2007, Levie and high school friend and now CFO Dylan Smith, pivoted the business to focus on selling to businesses. By 2012 their cloud had spread to Europe, opening an office in London.

By 2014, this college business idea was being used by 40% of the Fortune 500 companies. Inspiration to the immense potential of a forced business idea project to a globally used and known company.

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Categories : Databases, Services

Together We Rise

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Thursday, October 4th, 2018 
· 7 Comments

College student, Danny Mendoza started Together We Rise after uncovering the horrendous truth of his 9 year old cousin Roger. Roger, was living in a car when Danny learned of his situation. Danny worked while in college to get Roger into a real home. After this close to home experience, Danny created Together We Rise. The mission of Together We Rise was to help give foster children the opportunity to make their own choices. These choices included music lessons, mentoring, sports, athletics, and resume writing. This was designed for kids to become prepared for the age of 18 when foster care comes to an end so that they could move on and be successful outside of the system.

Together We Rise has turned into a campaign site, for other outside organizations fighting for the well-being of youth children and high school students who are limited in resources and opportunity to be successful.

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Categories : Uncategorized

Majoring in Finding a Cure for Cancer

Posted by beidelmanra1 
· Saturday, September 15th, 2018 
· 3 Comments

Two students from Dartmouth College, Souray Sinha and Riley Ennis are the founders and now CEO and COO of Oncolinx. Oncolinx, which creates technology that targets cancer and destroys cancer cells specifically and not the healthy cells. With this it helps those facing cancer treatments avoid and bypass the negative, uncomfortable and painful side-effects they face when going through chemotherapy. Oncolinx was founded in 2017 they have formed over 14 partnerships and have six academic collaborations.

The process for Oncolinx began with the targeting platform and technology of Azonafide. Azonafide attaches to tumor cells and both induces cancer cell death and activates the immune system through immunogenic cell death (ICD). Azonafide then led to shared-data and a material-transfer agreement that allowed Oncolinx to work with Azonafide with a patented linker technology. Lastly, was the design of ICD enabling studies which led to an agreement on commercialization and clinical trial strategies.

Currently, Oncolinx is partnered with more than 12 leading pharmaceutical companies and hopes to enter into clinical trials soon. The founders, Souray Sinha and Riley Ennis have a specific goal to work with academic groups and other startups that have to do with protein/aptamer-drug conjugates as well as immunotherapy combination studies.

What a great example of ambitious goals, fighting something that has affected so many and being successful. Then to take that success and open up the door to other students to also have a possibility to be apart of this research and technology.

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Categories : Uncategorized