Kareem Elfoulie, founder of Senior Shield, was one of a dozen student founders participating in this fall’s second UGA Entrepreneurship Idea Accelerator. The mechanical engineer took home the $2,500 top prize.
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The Georgia Bulldog Angel Network held its inaugural meeting in September at the UGA Terry College of Business Executive Education Center in Atlanta. Sixty or so entrepreneurs, investors and fund managers across Atlanta met to share coffee and conversation and hear from up-and-coming founders. “We’re excited to be here and share what we’ve been doing […]
Dawgtown Moving, a student-owned moving company with over 20 employees, took home $2,500 at the UGA Entrepreneurship Program’s Idea Accelerator pitch contest.
In May, Terry College of Business students traveled to Sweden, Finland and Denmark to see how a region with a radically different regulatory structure and cultural norms support a booming innovation ecosystem.
More than 70 student startups applied to pitch at UGA’s2024 Next Top Entrepreneur Contest. The winner, J.D. Thomerson, won judges over with his design to help elderly and disabled dogs live a full life.
It’s pollen season in Georgia, and no one’s happier than UGA second-year student Kaden Husney. For the last five years, Husney’s business — The Real Under Pressure — has helped homeowners and businesses around north Fulton County clear away pollen, grime and mildew. On April 10, he cleaned up at UGA Entrepreneurship’s final Idea Accelerator Demo Day of the 2023-24 school year.
Chi-Chi founders Izzy Gorton and Chiara Munzi want you to try chickpeas for breakfast. Their grain-free, chickpea oatmeal brand, won them $15,000 at the 2024 Collegiate Great Brands Competition on March 27.
Terry College PMBA student Carla Moultrie turned her daughter Camille, who is on the autism spectrum, into a full-fledged superhero in Ausome Girl, a children’s book about the strengths and needs of people with autism and how to support them.
Although its free-wheelin’, artsy past seems at odds with serious business, the city’s dual personalities make sense once you visit, said Adrienne Lincoln, a senior studying finance and international business at the Terry College of Business. Both rely on a community of dedicated people supporting each other and celebrating their success.
University of Georgia senior Jack TerHaar liked having a clean car and hated working at his bar job in downtown Athens. That was the inspiration behind Detail Dawgs, TerHaar’s car detailing business and the winner of the UGA Entrepreneurship Program’s third annual Venture Prize Competition. TerHaar, who studies real estate and finance at the Terry […]