Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 3, 2022

Teams led by student innovators from Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa and East Central University claimed first place awards in the recent statewide Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan competition. Love’s Travel Stops is the signature sponsor of the event, which is managed by i2E, Inc.

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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

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. Everyone came together.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

This is a conversation that comes from a place of love and caring. This truly comes from a place of love and intention to fulfill your parents’ wishes. You never want to look at your loved one(s) and have to ask a question that they’re unable to answer. Setting the scene. What is the goal of “The Talk”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

More recently, 90+ members were together in Qatar for the football World Cup. We thoroughly enjoyed sharing our common love for skiing and business.”. I showered them with love and attention. We had drinks together, partied together and of course there’s a strong level of trust amongst EO members so it’s very easy to connect.

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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. And she also loves the environment. We love coffee and know the farmers, and we are providing an alternative solution,” she added. “We Compound Foods announced $4.5 million to date.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2019

During his tenure at i2E, Greg established the Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan competition, now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup Competition. Interview times will be based around Love’s Cup Interview times. Eugene Catholic Church. Award Eligibility. Application Period Open December 18, 2019.

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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.

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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. The Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup has been a phenomenal tool to engage our emerging generation and encourage their entrepreneurship. By Scott Meacham.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 18, 2019

Spring is an inspiring time of year around i2E as we enter the final phase of the 2019 Love’s Cup statewide collegiate business plan competition. Oklahoma owes a huge thank you to Love’s Travel Stops for sponsoring the competition, formerly known as the Governor’s Cup and now in its 15th year.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 9, 2021

Tom and Judy Love, founders of Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores , are entrepreneurs like that. Building Love’s Travel Stops. The story of Love’s Travel Stops is a classic. Tom Love had knowledge of the oil and gas industry through summer work around pipe yards, pump jacks and refineries.

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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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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Healthy living is not a cup of tea that you can warm up and reuse. If you can’t, then cut down the number of cups per day. We all love to sit, sit and sit. You need to chart a full diet plan to stay well and strong. But, most of our readers tend to think that this is something very difficult to be done or implemented.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2022

For college and university students who think they might want to make a career as an entrepreneur, there is Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup — Oklahoma’s unique statewide collegiate business plan competition where students learn the nitty gritty of what it takes to build a business plan for a startup company.

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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. Meeting them led me to believe that I could do it, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

All you need is a killer pitch, an MVP, nerves of steel and the drive and determination to take on all comers to claim the coveted Disrupt Cup. Oh, and let’s not forget the bragging rights associated with winning the Disrupt Cup. You could see the excitement, enthusiasm and possibility of the young founders, and I loved that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

” Piyush’s book, Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture that Matters , reinforces how to lead by example by giving to your employees. I feel we have a duty to create belonging, affirmation and meaning for our employees and I love teaching others how to do this,” he says.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 18, 2022

The post Love’s Cup Small Business Division semifinalists named appeared first on i2E. The No-Waste Paste reduces waste and provides a solution to a messy household problem with a reusable toothpaste dispenser.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

Among them were winners from the recent 2020 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan and pitch competition , Cadenzo and Novel Nuero, both based in Tulsa. Another Love’s Cup team moving forward with their business idea is Cadenzo , the second-place winner in the High Growth Undergraduate Division.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Sarah has more on this steamy, hot cup of rewards. Trevor Milton, ex-CEO of Nikola, starts his fraud trial, which serves as a warning to risk-loving investors who would throw money at a company before it starts delivering products or bringing in revenue, Rebecca reports. Move over capsules and K-cups. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This is possible because traders love to use our app which, unlike other lending apps, has inventory management. In 2019, the startup won the Africa Cup at the 2019 SA Innovation Summit, securing a $350,000 investment from Unicorn Group, a pan-African investment firm.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 18, 2022

The post Love’s Cup Undergraduate Division semifinalists named appeared first on i2E. Solar Mineralis developed technology to create high quality solar cells that will accelerate the adoption of solar energy solutions. Customers are offered clean, abundant, low-cost, distributed and renewable energy via the solar solution.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2022

Don’t give me a pinkies-up tea cup. I mean, how can I not love a company with a Twitter bio of “We make pottery in the Blue Ridge Mountains and are highly opinionated.” I’m not a snob, just deliberate. And that intentionality has caused an exploration of drinking vessels. Size, durability, aesthetics and heft. I want a mug.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Mucho moola: One startup will rise above the rest to claim the Disrupt Cup, the title of Startup Battlefield Champion and the $100,000 of equity-free prize money. You could see the excitement, enthusiasm and possibility of the young founders, and I loved that. She also shared her thoughts about Startup Battlefield.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s difficult to read the morning news while sipping your freshly brewed cup of coffee without hearing about one horror story after another. While this might be upsetting, a lovely and uplifting byproduct of all this criticism is that it inspires many to become activists.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Kyle, your fingers must be exhausted — go treat yourself to a cup of coffee and a round of baseball or something. We love Christine’s story of Lemon Perfect’s investor journey with the queen bee: Two years after Lemon Perfect was spotted in Beyoncé’s limo, the superstar is now a backer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Take care of yourself first so that you can take care of others with a full cup. Do they reach out to you for something you love to share? Whom did you share the love with when you realized there was a chance you would never see them again? Are you still in love with your enterprise? What’s your input? ENTERPRISE.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 21, 2020

Among them were winners from the recent 2020 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan and pitch competition , Cadenzo and Novel Nuero, both based in Tulsa. Another Love’s Cup team moving forward with their business idea is Cadenzo , the second-place winner in the High Growth Undergraduate Division.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 7, 2020

Our thirty-first e3 cohort began this week and includes two of the Love’s Cup teams from Tulsa. This company is working on developing and manufacturing a kit that will enable rapid generation of human antibodies for researchers pursing new methods of treating disease. The thirty-second e3 cohort is scheduled for August.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Much love from your friendly hosts, Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Who asked for more ChatGPT? Oh great, more energy spritzes : Christine reports how this startup pledges to “deliver a cup of coffee’s worth of energy in just three sprays.”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

America truly is the land of opportunity, especially to people who grow up in third world countries and fight adversity every day while seeking to create a better life for themselves and their loved ones. How the game works : Players take turns tossing foam balls into multicolored cups that have different point values.

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GCUC

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Members love this breakfast and it makes the space smell delicious. Valentines day plates, napkins and cups. Leave paper hearts out in the communal space and ask members to “share the love” with interactions, words of gratitude for the space or other members, etc. Go share the coworking love. Here is our favorite.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Gmail no longer lets you use the old interface , you retro-loving nerd, you. Here, make yourself a cup of tea and click through these. You just know it has been a pretty wild ride when Meta can lay off 13% of its staff , and it isn’t even really in the top 10 of crazy things that happened. You’re the master of your own destiny.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Charming Verne convinced my father, who loved the idea of working with young people with big ideas. Together, we have started a charity called It’s a Girl Thing, which provides menstrual cups to young girls and their mothers and teachers to enable them to stay in school with a sustainable eco-friendly solution.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2022

Tom and Judy Love founded Love’s Travel Stops with $5,000 in borrowed capital and a vision of the opportunity in retail gas. They have been a persistent force in educating Oklahoma students in entrepreneurship; Love’s is the signature sponsorship of the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup , which just completed its eighteenth year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

Like a buttery croissant, WiR goes great with a morning cup of coffee — or tea, if that’s your preference. We’d love to see your smiling face. We publish on the site and send WiR to subscribers’ inboxes every Saturday (sign up here if you haven’t already) to make things convenient. Or hot cocoa.

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