Powered by her indomitable energy and enthusiasm and the Blackstone Launchpad program at Syracuse University, student Kelsey Davis founded a startup, CLLCTVE, that bridges the gap between student creatives and brands who want to discover emerging talent. CLLCTVE, designed for students, is focused on the next generation overtaking the labor force that has an important attribute: diversity.
Read MoreMichael Broughton might have seemed like an unlikely candidate to launch a finance business when he arrived at USC, barely able to cover his freshman tuition. Today, thanks to support from the university community and the Blackstone LaunchPad, a national network promoting student entrepreneurship, Broughton and his diverse team have come up with a unique solution, Hatch Credit, to help students improve their credit scores.
Read MoreStrata’s CEO, Dan Michelson, and his team members joined Business Today students at Strata’s Chicago office for a conversation surrounding the importance of data science on healthcare. The team at Strata helps unpack complexities in the healthcare system, so hospitals can improve and shift their policies.
Read MoreIn a crowded market of food delivery, Snackpass has cracked the code in marketing to their college audience with a social experience of ordering food, and investors have taken notice. Business Today speaks with Claudia Haimovici, Growth Marketing Manager, to learn about their plans for further expansion and the student founder experience.
Read MoreIn the environmental industry, it is extremely difficult to strike a balance between product efficiency and market viability; improvements on one end often require a sacrifice on the other. However, a team of students from Harvard and Brown have successfully transcended this stereotype with their startup H2Ok Innovations, which offers a host of technologies that perform a nearly instantaneous analysis of organic and chemical contaminants in water samples. Their fusion of data analytics with consumer accessibility has already led them to garner several accolades.
Read MoreDuolingo has just added two new endangered languages to its free educational app. In this article, Anne Wen examines the implications of Duolingo’s pivot to endangered languages.
Read MoreKulveer Taggar is the co-founder and CEO of Zeus Living, a San Francisco-based company redefining how we live. Zeus provides thoughtfully furnished homes to business travelers for stays of 30+ days.
Read MoreHowever, for all the good these companies have done for us, their dominating nature provides the opportunity to completely control innumerable aspects of our lives with no consequences for their actions – something that should also be considered.
Read MoreWith the current impetus in growth, the 21st Century will mark the era where the sky won’t be a limit anymore.
Read MoreImagine a world where children learn not just for knowledge but also to utilize it for creating something tangible and valuable to the people around them.
Read MorePost-financial-crisis, the advances in automation have compelled people to up-skill. The dramatic rise in the number of startups during the same time has forged a symbiotic relationship between the two, thereby enhancing both of them simultaneously.
Read MoreSantiago Martinez is a Colombian student who attended Business Today’s 44th International Conference. He talks about how he drew inspiration from the International Conference to start his own venture: the Latam Impact Program.
Read MoreLiz Wessel is the CEO of Co-Founder & CEO of WayUp. WayUp is a job site and mobile app for that college students and graduate students can use to connect with employers. As of 2017, the app has over 5 million users and 300,000 employers.
Read MoreSeven students from Emory University are creating a line of stainless steel water bottles. What sets their product apart from the competition?
Read MoreFor a college student pursuing a career in tech, there seems to be one set path: get a secure job at Facebook or Google. However, Coding It Forward (CIF), a startup initiated by Harvard student Chris Kuang and Wellesley College graduate Rachel Dodell, gives students interested in tech another option.
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