The Innovators’ Spark
Saturday, July 17, 2021 from 9am to 3pm. All students are welcome. Are you excited about developing your entrepreneurial mindset during your time at Fuqua? Whether you have an idea for a new venture, you plan to invest in others’ innovations, or you will transform existing companies by bringing big ideas to life, you are […]
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Candor and compassion in mission driven work
Romy Parzick MBA ’06 is the CEO of Vault, which helps reduce employees’ student debt via tools and services for employers. Romy’s approach to people-centered leadership was profiled in a Forbes article.
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Industry expertise leads to innovation and a growing business
David Hailey, the founder and CEO of Countalytics, doesn’t come from the traditional background of the founder of a tech company. David’s background is in auditing and consulting, as reinforced by his nearly two decades spent working as a risk manager at EY and a General Manager at Delta Airlines in their Corporate Audit department. […]
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The Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship during Business School
When I came into my first year at Fuqua, second year of my dual-degree overall, I had decided it was time to embrace something different. Fresh off an internship at WeWork, I had entrepreneurial inspiration and an idea for applying techniques I learned during my internship to a new context. I wanted to develop a […]
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Entrepreneurial Mindset: the common thread from consulting to startup to Google
Tim Sestrich loves to tinker and fills his time creating side projects. This has always been true, even as an undergraduate where he devoted his senior project to building and launching an apartment search website that would compete with Craigslist for the University of Pittsburgh’s student body. Tim drew inspiration from the first post-dotcom bubble […]
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