Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Creative Spark Industries” student team from Pryor High School wins highest honor Leaders from MidAmerica Industrial Park and i2E announce a team of three Pryor High School seniors are the top winners of the inaugural high school entrepreneurship program called the MidAmerica Cup. We did not have experience with the business and marketing.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As you prepare your plans for supporting entrepreneurs this coming year, grab a cup of coffee and get ready to add some of these great reads to your 2021 reading list.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

At EO, we celebrate entrepreneurs every day. But with Women’s Entrepreneurship Day taking place this week, we’re directing our applause to all the entrepreneurs who are women! Host and EO member Kalika Yap launched the podcast as a way to share stories that empower women entrepreneurs to change the world. Listen here.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 1, 2023

OKLAHOMA CITY – Students from eight Oklahoma schools were awarded $158,000 in cash prizes and scholarships during the 19th annual Entrepreneur’s Cup last week. Winning teams were revealed at the Love’s Cup awards dinner at the Oklahoma History Center on Thursday, April 20.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY — Student entrepreneurs from college campuses across Oklahoma pitched winning business plans online to virtual panels of judges in the recent Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup competition that awarded $158,000 in cash prizes and scholarships. The 2020 Love’s Cup truly was unstoppable,” Meacham said.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 2, 2021

Oklahoma’s Love’s Cup teams are making history that future generations will read about. Lately, I have been enjoying some desk-chair time travel, writing about Oklahoma inventors and entrepreneurs, people like Wiley Post, inventor of the first pressurized flight suit, and Bob Dunn with his electric guitar. By Scott Meacham.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

Rise of the Rest also hosted a Northwest Arkansas Startup Community Roundtable to help connect individuals within the regional innovation ecosystem with those visiting for the Heartland Summit to share experiences, challenges, and best practices for supporting entrepreneurs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 20, 2022

The Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup , underwritten by Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores , has become an important underpinning of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Oklahoma. Nothing illustrates that better than when a Love’s Cup winning team builds a company based on their competition business plan. Love’s Cup Winners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

More recently, 90+ members were together in Qatar for the football World Cup. It is fascinating to share the experience with 65 like-minded entrepreneurs and learn together for four days of full networking and knowledge. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 25, 2021

Delighted entrepreneurs by giving them answers in 7-10 days from when they pitch and providing pitch feedback they constantly rate as among the best they’ve ever received. Delighted our syndication partners by making life easy on them and their entrepreneurs by moving with speed, efficiency, and respect.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 27, 2023

Global entrepreneurs are leading the charge in creating solutions that impact their communities and inspire others to do the same on the path toward a greener future. Refica received the Commonwealth Points of Light Award from Her Majesty the Queen in May 2022. The YLAI Fellowship is sponsored by the U.S. Thank you, Refica! government.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Circularity tales: Tackling the problem of single-use cups in Spain Irri Sarri, spearheaded by visionary entrepreneur Ander Alvarez, stands at the forefront of the global movement towards a circular economy, combatting the environmental repercussions of single-use plastic.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 1, 2023

Dozens of emerging entrepreneurs who are developing innovations related to the maker economy, forest products, outdoors and recreation, and even tech manufacturing, applied to the contest for a chance to win $50,000 to help launch their “big idea”! This multi-use pod can be used in a standard coffee cup and just needs hot water!

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

My winning Entrepreneur’s Cup idea was a fundraising platform that utilized the customizable traits of soap such as shape, color, and scent to provide a unique solution to youth organizations. How did your experience from the Entrepreneur’s Cup shape your future goals in the business world?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2019

With a lot of applause and anticipation, we just concluded the 2019 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup, Oklahoma’s only statewide collegiate business plan and pitch competition. Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell was present to address the young entrepreneurs, stating his door is always open for Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Maricel Saenz, founder and CEO of Compound Foods , is among the over 80% of Americans who love a cup of coffee daily. They use food science to recreate a base formula using sustainable ingredients that also don’t use a lot of water — she said it takes 140 liters of water along the coffee growth chain to make one cup of coffee.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

And the story of an old peanut butter cup success Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 10, 2021

OKBio connects the dots in a fun way from the laboratories of our state’s ground-breaking bioscience companies to the brewing and distilling entrepreneurs who, over the last decade, have created this exciting new industry in Oklahoma, where there wasn’t one before. Connect the Dots. i2E has managed the statewide competition for 17 years.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. Its flagship product is the Knight, an intrusion and motion detector that locks into the cup holder of a vehicle. And yes, the cup holder can still be used.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you aren’t familiar with the River Valley Investors (RVI), we are a network of successful business executives and entrepreneurs who invest in exciting startups. If that sounds like your cup of tea, learn what is required to be an RVI member. No one investor has all of the time and expertise needed to fully vet all deals.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 17, 2020

Every spring, the celebratory conclusion of the annual Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup brings into sharp focus—and the limelight—the months of hard work that teams from Oklahoma’s colleges and universities put into this business plan and pitch competition. By Scott Meacham. We would be interested in working with them.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2022

One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that there are always so many people and organizations who want to help. The other side of that coin is the flinty-eyed question that every successful entrepreneur eventually learns to ask: “Is this the help I need right now?”. It starts with a big idea of course. Revalidating.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma college students competing in the 2020 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup turned to a group of national investors for insight and direction into their concepts during the recent Interview portion of the business plan competition. It’s hard for any entrepreneur to get time in a closed room with an investor.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 19, 2020

We have a new virtual rallying cry at i2E: Love’s Cup Is Unstoppable! 2020 is the sixteenth year of the widely acclaimed Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup statewide collegiate business plan competition. From day one, the vision for Love’s Cup (formerly the Donald W.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 25, 2021

This event will be preceded by the Global Entrepreneurship World Cup, which was launched in 2019 and has provided training and education for nearly 300,000 applicants. The winners of the Global Entrepreneurship World Cup competition will be selected during the Global Entrepreneurship Congress.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Her father is a serial entrepreneur. “My Bolin has long been an advisor to teams that competed in the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup teams. I competed in Tiger Tank (a mini-version of Shark Tank), came in second place in Love’s Cup and won the pitch competition. My mom is my role model and my mentor,” Dia said.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 16, 2021

The Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup continues to be a uniquely Oklahoma source of entrepreneurial inspiration. One of the best aspects of Love’s Cup is that the buzz carries on. The Oklahoma entrepreneurial spirit is inspiring and contagious, no matter when or how it appears. Students who participate tell their friends.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With the world’s attention turning to Japan for the Rugby World Cup 2019 and for the 2020 Olympics, members of EO Japan realized an opportunity to cultivate an international mindset in their families. Aihara even says that the children “decided they wanted to engage in international business and be entrepreneurs in the future.”

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 31, 2022

To showcase our commitment with that mission, in the latest Circularity Tales series we are presenting great examples from innovators and entrepreneurs who participated in our global pilot programme addressed at embedding circular principles across their ventures. Our invitee of the moment is Ander Alvarez, founder of Irri Sarri. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 9, 2021

Entrepreneurs are wired in a special way. I believe that because I haven’t met an entrepreneur who didn’t, in ways both large and small, support and believe in other entrepreneurs. Tom and Judy Love, founders of Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores , are entrepreneurs like that. Entrepreneurs are wired in a special way.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Celebrate entrepreneurship programming and events, most notably Techstars Startup Week, Global Entrepreneurship Week, and 1 Million Cups. What is the most successful/impactful program/event/thing you do/have done in your ecosystem? What is the biggest challenge you face as an Ecosystem Builder?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As everyday citizens, business owners, entrepreneurs, family members, you can participate in creating a world of integrity. Meet up for a cup of coffee with someone who is doing something similar to you and develop your community. Here are a few questions of self-reflection to ask yourself to help you live and lead with integrity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Joingin get raise was Soma Capital, Gilgamesh Ventures, FBG Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Toy Ventures, Gaingels, Ledger Prime, WAGMI Ventures, and NOA Capital. So what makes Frontrunner different? One of its schticks is that is makes its bettering market look much more like a stock market-like experience.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in Oklahoma. Our history with MaxQ began when they competed in the 2012 Governor’s Cup (now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup), Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. By Scott Meacham. The story of MaxQ is an adventure story of entrepreneurship.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

Now in its fifth year, this program is the most robust in the region and boasts more than 160 participating companies, comprised of both seasoned founders and first-time entrepreneurs, all of whom have gained valuable insight from e3. . As a part of the 31 st e3 cohort, these entrepreneurs are ahead of the game.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Kuan Wei (Greg) Soh is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor who enjoys building world-class technology teams. Remote work is not for every business and it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Share on Twitter. Previously, he worked in financial services, the hedge fund industry and at high-growth startups.

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