Just Boiling…Purdue reaches milestone with helping launch more than 200 start-ups since 2013
In 2018, Purdue University reached a milestone with the creation of more than 223 start-up companies. The university has been monitoring this since 2013 when Mitch Daniels became Purdue’s President and created an initiative to ensure students and faculty gain the rights to their inventions and ideas. Purdue Senior Vice President of Innovation and Entrepreneurship […]
Escape Room + Travel, Yes! Student business accelerator launches ‘real-world escape room’ for travelers
Western Michigan University launched the Starting Gate, a student business accelerator, in 2013, when the school began to seriously address how to support the transfer of technology from university labs to the marketplace and help commercialize the aspirations of other would-be entrepreneurs on campus. Since then, it has helped launch 80 companies, held more than […]
Eastern Perspectives: How can an Accelerator program help a Startup?
Will a startup really benefit from an Accelerator Program? This is a million-dollar question in the minds of several Founders and for good reasons! StartUp Accelerators or Seed Accelerators as they’re also called, are programs which encompass seed investments in startups for fixed terms along with mentorship, connections, educational and skill based programs and usually […]