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Before the elevator pitch, a board game: inside Lambda Mu
At University of the Pacific, Delta Sigma Pi’s Lambda Mu Chapter puts friendship on the same calendar as professional practice. Its recruitment sequence offers a small, useful lesson in making introductions less awkward.
KCSourceLink Built a Business Help Desk for an Entire City
Kansas City already had plenty of people willing to help entrepreneurs. The missing product was a map - and the trust to make the handoffs work.
Marina de Empresas puts the classroom next door to the capital
On Valencia’s waterfront, Juan Roig brought a business school, a startup accelerator and an investor together. The offer is practical: learn the business, test it with customers, and earn your way to the next stage.
Hub101 Wants Your Business to Outgrow Its Desks
At Cal Lutheran’s startup hub, a workspace comes with people who will question your business plan. The goal is to help founders build something that can stand on its own.
Joseph King Has Spent Three Decades Making Technical Companies Sound Human
From business forms to an AI-first insurance market, Joe King's career is a study in translation: turning complex technology into language that clients, colleagues and classrooms can use.
Stephanie Bleau Took Retail Lessons Back to the Classroom
After three decades spent turning customer insight into retail decisions, the former Reitmans and Bentley executive is teaching a new generation how strategy survives contact with real life.
A Five-Year-Old University Is Trying to Make the Business Degree Prove Itself
International Business University has gone from 11 graduates to nearly 700 in two years. Its wager is simple: a young school can earn trust faster if every course leaves evidence an employer can understand.
ActionCOACH Global
ActionCOACH turned an intangible service - advice - into a repeatable franchise sold in more than 80 countries. Its real product is a weekly rhythm that helps owners replace improvisation with systems.
Harvard Student Agencies
Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is the largest student-run company in the world. Founded at Harvard in 1957 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, it employs more than 900 Harvard undergraduates each year across roughly a dozen businesses - from The Harvard Shop and Trademark Tours to Let's Go travel guides, HSA Tutoring, GroupGear custom apparel, and Campus Insights user research. Students run every division as managers, gaining hands-on business experience while earning wages that help offset the cost of a Harvard education.
Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan is the founder and CEO of AppSumo, a bootstrapped software deals marketplace generating $80-100M in annual revenue, built for under $60 over a single weekend in 2010. A former Facebook employee #30 and Mint.com employee #4 — fired from both — he turned serial rejection into a playbook: 7+ businesses each worth $1M+, a New York Times bestselling book (Million Dollar Weekend), a YouTube channel with 1M+ subscribers, and a podcast in the top 0.1% globally. He splits his time between Austin, Texas and Barcelona, Spain with his wife and child.