When Spencer Sutlive came to the University of Georgia, he was an outdoorsy kid with an idea to build a better ice chest. Five years later, his Rugged Road coolers have grown from a dream to a specialty brand to a must-have for outdoors lovers.
Category: Innovation
It’s July in Georgia. It’s hot. You have your dog in the car, but you want to run into the gas station to grab a bag of chips. What do you do?
As any person wearing makeup in the June heat can attest, makeup and sweat don’t mix. But Vanessa Sachs, a UGA master’s degree student in consumer analytics and a fitness instructor, is on a mission to change the way people think about how sweat fits into their day.
UGA Entrepreneurship Program study abroad students traveled 6,000 miles to investigate Tel Aviv’s ecosystem of entrepreneurship this May.
The boss of Biren Patel Engineering can hold board meetings in the mirror.
Life-changing moments have a way of finding a person, often when — or where — they’re least expected. For Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Bonney Shuman, an extraordinary career began in, of all places, a metro Atlanta Krispy Kreme. Call it sweet serendipity.
Valeria Brenner has helped hundreds of Instagram merchants ship thousands of packages since launching Thryft Ship. Now she has $10,000 to expand her reach.
Clean beauty enthusiast and University of Georgia graduate student Kristen Dunning is making her mark by helping others clean up.
When Kristen Dunning participated in her first UGA Entrepreneurship Idea Accelerator Program, she was a woman with sensitive skin, a knack for plants and a dream of selling soap to the masses.
Offbeat Media Group, an Atlanta-based digital influence and media company headed by a trio of Terry College graduates and a Grady College alum, took home top honors in the Bulldog 100 ranking of the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni.