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Starting a business and getting it off the ground can be difficult, especially for students. That's where the Big Idea Pitch competition comes in.
In the final round, it seemed one of the judges had found a vulnerability in the investment plan that BYU Marriott’s graduate team presented for the 2017 regional Venture Capital Investment Competition. But with more clarification that surprised the judges, the team knocked it out of the park.
Students demonstrated their innovation talents by participating in the Big Idea Pitch competition during Entrepreneurship Week.
BYU's best entrepreneurs went head to head at this year's Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
Sponsored by the Ballard Center, graduate students created innovative solutions for Newman's Own Foundation.
The Rollins Center celebrates the spirit of creativity and innovation by hosting its first-ever Entrepreneurship Week.
Nearly 2.5 billion people around the world live on less than $2 a day. Lewis Hower is developing a solution.
Not long after putting their pencils down on the last bubble sheet, many Marriott School students say good-bye to their final exams and to Y Mountain, leaving Provo in pursuit of internships and experience.
In 1961 a gallon of gas cost thirty cents, JFK was president, and Barbie was first introduced to Ken. And in the basement of the Jesse Knight Building something groundbreaking was happening: the BYU MBA was born.
Give Gary Williams ten minutes to explain Cougar Capital and you’ll be sold. Give him an hour and you’ll not only want to invest but you’ll wonder why more universities aren’t doing the same thing with their business programs. And if you give him two years as an MBA student at the Marriott School you’ll develop such a diverse portfolio of knowledge and skills in venture capital and private equity you might just make a career of it.
Despite the conversion of hundreds of dot.coms to dot.bombs over the past year, Americans continue to view entrepreneurship as a career path with potential.