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Vascugenix Assists Cardiovascular Surgeons in the Operating Room

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of articles featuring past winners of e-Fest, EIX's undergraduate business plan competition, and their journey since then. Cardiovascular surgeons need Read More...

Category: Student Feature

Author: John Buday

Students Need Entrepreneurship Courses Now More Than Ever

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an updated version of an article that we first published in 2017. The author has updated it because it is especially relevant for the post-Covid-19 workforce.  Today’s Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Cochran

Student Entrepreneurs Grow $40 Million Business

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...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Social Entrepreneurs Take on Water Scarcity

To learn more about eFest, EIX's competition for undergraduate business ideas, click here. This article and video are part of  America’s Entrepreneurs: Making it Work , a Rewire initiative Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Clayton Stansberry

eFest2018 Winner is Making Life More Colorful for Diabetics

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...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Mission-Driven Startup Helps Survivors of Abuse

Since its incorporation in 2015, the social venture and social benefit corporation Fair Anita has operated profitably while helping about 8,000 survivors of sexual and domestic abuse worldwide to Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Park & Diamond: eFest 2017 Winner Ready to Launch

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 and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

A Lean Startup Approach to Engaging High School Students

EDITOR’S NOTE: Doris Korda spent more than a decade at Bell Labs and in several corporate ventures, one of which became a billion dollar software business. She made the switch to education 22 years Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Catherine Buday

Georgia State Team is e-Fest 2019 Grand Prize Winner

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...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

STEM Students and Faculty Can Gain Entrepreneurial Thinking and Skills

The University of Minnesota MIN-Corps is one of about 100 sites of the National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which began with great fanfare in 2011 (1) . The Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Carla Pavone