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'Park & Diamond' Takes Top e-Fest Prize
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The winning student teams for 2017 are posted here, and will head to Minneapolis April 6-8 for e-Fest. Congratulations! Read More...
E-Fest 2017 Kicks Off Today
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Our 25 student finalist teams begin arriving today. One will go home with $100,000. Here is a list of who they are and what they invented. Read More...
Improved Bike Helmet Takes Top Prize at e-Fest
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Judges praised the overall quality of the 25 student innovations. This update includes their feedback and recommendations. Read More...
Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Highlights e-Fest® 2018
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Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...
Georgia State Team is e-Fest 2019 Grand Prize Winner
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To learn more about eFest, EIX's competition for undergraduate business ideas, click here . MINNEAPOLIS, April 14, 2019 -- We are very pleased to announce the results of our 2019 Schulze Read More...
Park & Diamond: eFest 2017 Winner Ready to Launch
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Park & Diamond, which has invented a bicycle helmet that is stylish and portable as well as safe, was the eFest2017 grand prize winner, taking home $100,000. For its founders Jordan Klein Read More...
Mission-Driven Startup Helps Survivors of Abuse
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Fair Anita, started by an abuse survivor, is helping vulnerable women around the world. Read More...
eFest2018 Winner is Making Life More Colorful for Diabetics
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Meghan Sharkus of ExpressionMed, the eFest2018 grand prize winner, has made it her mission to make life more fun and fashionable for diabetics who must wear insulin devices every day. The colorful Read More...
Student Entrepreneurs Grow $40 Million Business
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Editor's Note: This article and podcast originally appeared as part of "By All Means," a series about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs produced through a partnership between University of St. Read More...
e-Fest 2020 Highlights Elite Undergraduate Student Entrepreneurs Among Outstanding Field of Competitors
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TOP 25 FINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT MINNEAPOLIS, March 27, 2020 -- It was another exciting year for e-Fest and the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge! Once again, our team of entrepreneurship judges pored Read More...
The Hidden Payoffs of Entrepreneurship Competitions
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We've found that students gain far more than learning how to launch a startup: They also gain skills that make them more employable. Read More...
e-Fest 2022 Top 25 Finalists Announced
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These undergraduate teams will travel to the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis from April 28-30 to showcase their business pitches to an esteemed panel of judges. Read More...
Announcing Our e-Fest 2022 Winners
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A University of New Hampshire Team was the grand prize winner; runners-up were from University of Alabama, FSU, University of Chicago and Grove City College. Read More...
EDITOR'S PICKS
How Real is Real?
Paul Watzlawick, Vintage Books, 1976We spend so much time communicating... Interpersonal communications always present the potential for great understanding as well as small reconcilable differences or even utter disagreement or confusion. Watzlawick's smart discussion includes anecdotes from science, philosophy, politics, business and the natural world, helping readers relate to compelling examples of communication success, failure and ramifications. An important entrepreneurship concept is "What do people really understand, remember, and believe about the things we communicate?" (And the follow-up, "How can we influence it?")