MotorMood, a student startup company out of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, is officially launching its Kickstarter campaign. MotorMood was founded by Argyros School student Kina De Santis, who was recently nominated for the Orange County Business Journal‘s 2015 Women in Business Awards. The Chapman community is invited to hear MotorMood’s
I attend Chapman University in Southern California. Disneyland is nine minutes away (I’m a fast driver). When class ends for the day, students head to the beach and lay in the sun. They take weekend trips up to Big Bear to go skiing. They hike to the Hollywood sign. It’s casual. You know what isn’t
ORANGE, Calif. — Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship will host its fourth annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner honoring serial entrepreneur, Angel investor, and venture capitalist Jeff Kearl. The dinner will take place Feb. 27, 2014, in Chapman University’s Sandhu Conference Center. Kearl is on the Board of Skullcandy and a board
ORANGE, CA – The California Dreamin competition, now in its second year at Chapman University, brought together students from top university entrepreneur programs around the country to prove that they have the best business plan. The event, by invitation only, took place April 26 and 27 and featured 25 schools competing for $230,000 in prize
Aspirely will be hosting a Champagne Brunch on April 26, 2013 from 11:00am – 1:30pm. Female entrepeneurs are invited to come meet the Aspirely Moms in a Champagne Brunch full of conversation, resources and connection. To register for the event, please go to the event registration page (use code FAF50 for 50% off). From the
Student entrepreneurs are thriving at Chapman University. With resources like the Leatherby Center for Entrepeneurship and the eVillage, Argyros School students are exposed to a host of opportunities and valuable resources outside of the classroom. In addition to seminars, distinguished speakers, and mentoring programs, the Leatherby Center hosts two business plan competitions annually – the
Chapman University, in partnership with AnyMeeting.com, a leading provider of web conferencing, will be the host site for the AnyMeeting WebRTC Hackathon planned Saturday, Jan. 26. Influxis, a live streaming and real-time application hosting provider, has signed on to be a sponsor of the event along with TokBox, creators of the OpenTok video platform, who
Chapman University is hosting the Cross-Border Entrepreneurship Conference (“CBE”) to be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012. This conference will provide opportunities for individuals, members of business and professional organizations, private capital and government entities from both the United States and Mexico to explore alliances among operating companies and investor groups on both sides of the
In his TEDxChapmanU talk, Henrik asks “What if?” and challenges the audience to take risks to keep their passions alive. He encourages everyone to work toward proving the “doubters” wrong and to believe in extraordinary ideas. He describes the setbacks he faced in designing a vehicle that was different than the rest, and walks us
Missed the inaugural TEDxChapmanU on June 15? We’ve got you covered. Watch the TEDx Talk “Courage To Fail”, delivered by Richard Sudek, director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics. For highlights and more information, please visit the TEDXChapmanU website.
Chapman University hosted their annual Business plan competition on Friday, April 20th. 5 teams out of the 27 entered made the final round of the competition. SweetTreats took home the 1st prize and $5,000 in startup funding. Badoonga took home the 2nd prize as well as some seed funding. With its first place finish, SweetTreats was
On March 30th, 2012, 130 people gathered for one purpose: to start a brand new business in less than 54 hours. Startup Weekend Orange County (SWOC), hosted annually at Chapman University, provided an exciting avenue for entrepreneurial minds to come together, collaborate and innovate in an accelerated environment. All Startup Weekend participants have an opportunity