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LaunchNET client profile: Pop Style

Client Profile: Obianuju "Uju" Izuchukwu

Uju is the founder of Pop Style (@_popstyle), an on-campus pop-up thrift shop that allows you to buy, donate and trade clothing for $3, $7, or $10. Customers can donate clothes they don't want anymore but someone else could wear and trade clothes at each price point. Where did you get the idea fo鈥

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Client Profile: By Katie K

By Katie K is a jewelry line created by Katie Kimble, a 2017 Kent State College of Business graduate and current Higher Education and Student Affairs grad student Her boho, fun design aesthetic came to life at a dining room table covered in beads (her kind of Legos). Katie is devoted to making je鈥

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Donald Wayne McLeod with students from Kent State and Kent city schools

Inspirational Speaker Brings Together Multiple Collaborators

Donald Wayne McLeod, author of Perceptionology 101, spoke in the Kent State ballroom on Tuesday October 9, to a crowd of local high school students, Kent State students, staff, faculty, and community business members from all over Northeast Ohio. The event was a collaboration between LaunchNET Kent 鈥

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Local high school students participate in entrepreneurship workshop hosted by LaunchNET Kent State

LaunchNET Kent State Promotes Entrepreneurship for Local High School Students

In October 2017, two groups of local high schools students came to Kent State University to participate in an entrepreneurial workshop designed to increase the students鈥 awareness and knowledge of the venture formation process, hosted by LaunchNET. On Monday, October 23, sixteen sophomore and jun鈥

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LaunchNET Kent State

Idea Generation & Market Research

Idea GenerationIdea NapkinUse this idea napkin to think through what you're working on and the elements that surround it such your audience and the value your idea brings.Bug ListA Bug List 鈥 in the context of entrepreneurship and creativity 鈥 is a list of things that you encounter throughout your d鈥

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Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in Kent State University鈥檚 College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council.

Kent State's College of Business Administration Associate Dean Named to Startup Officers Leadership Council

Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate and international programs and Bridgestone Chair in International Marketing in Kent State University鈥檚 College of Business Administration, has been named to the Startup Officers Leadership Council.  The Startup Officers Leadership Council鈥

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Kent Campus

No Desk Jobs for These Kent State Alumna

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.     What you do not see are the amazing women around the globe who use se鈥

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Women Turn Ideas Into Businesses

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords. What you won't see is the hard work behind the attire.       &nbs鈥

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LaunchNET Kent State

Kent State student Hart Main displays ManCans, masculine-scented candles he created. Part of the proceeds from each candle is donated to soup kitchens, and the candles themselves are made by individuals with development disabilities.

Kent State Student Sells Candles With a Philanthropic Twist

  鈥淒on鈥檛 put any idea off as a joke,鈥 said Richard 鈥淗art鈥 Main, a Kent State University sophomore economics major from New Philadelphia, Ohio. 鈥淚 almost did that and missed an opportunity.鈥 The 18-year-old entrepreneur, from Kent State's College of Business Administration, is referri鈥

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LaunchNET Awards and Expo celebrates entrepreneurs

LaunchNET Celebrates with Awards & Expo

The university and local community are invited to join LaunchNET as we celebrate the success of Kent State entrepreneurs! Over 1,200 students, faculty/staff and alumni from across the university have participated in the NEOLaunchNET program at Kent State University. Many of these innovators 鈥

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