Just in time for football season, University of Georgia senior Lee Evans and business partner and recent hospitality graduate Maddy Heck took home $10,000 from UGA Entrepreneurship’s Summer Launch to boost the production of Buck’s Customs Slings.
Category: Innovation
In the whirlwind of the supply chain, there is no standing still. To keep from being swept up, there must be constant movement by logistics caretakers: the operations bosses, the technology builders, the data miners, the finance experts and, of course, the higher-education scholars who prime the pump with talent.
Valeria Brenner didn’t celebrate with UGA graduates at Undergraduate Commencement, but her decision to enter the Rice University Business Plan Competition resulted in another reason to celebrate: Winning $135,000 in investment for her business Thryft Ship.
Whether it’s a machine learning system boosting SEO, an algorithm sorting résumés or a chatbot handling customer service, artificial intelligence already plays a role in today’s offices.
While the Terry College of Business student-run venture capital fund, the Kickstart Fund, helped to launch 70 startup companies over the last five years, there is still room to learn.
It’s hard to know what makes some cities and neighborhoods attract artists and become incubators for creative culture.
Matt Tesvich’s mission is making the world smell better — one pair of socks at a time.
Whether it’s a 1979 Honda sedan or a 1969 Indian motorcycle, project cars and bikes need hard-to-find parts.
It’s a good thing Vanessa Sachs’ makeup brand is sweatproof because it takes a lot of hard work to manage one of the fastest-selling student-founded makeup companies.
Disha Adama, a management information systems major, was one of five Terry MIS students to work with UGA’s CyberArch initiative this year.