The recipients of the Cobbertunity grant have been chosen. Trent Cavaness and Kiya McLaurin were awarded the funding. McLaurin received $2,100 and Cavaness $2,555. Cavaness won for his photography business called TCavProductions and McLaurin for her event planning business called Key Event Planning. The two had been sitting in the same class during a lecture…
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New club strives for patent
Entrepreneurial Inventing Club produced a hunting duck decoy as a way for students to get real world experience with inventing. Entrepreneurial Inventing Club provides a collaborative environment for students to invent and create products that could receive patents, according to Michael Thompson, president of the club. “[It’s] a place for students to have hands-on experience…
Int. Business Club back in action
After a 10-year hiatus, Concordia’s International Business Club is underway, pushing for a greater presence on campus through new features and technology. “We hope to create a community of people who are interested in global issues and working together to make a difference in the world,” Elise Woodwick, president of the IBC, said. According to…
Editorial: The college town symbiosis
College towns may prove one of the most challenging environments in which to run a business. Between the constantly changing taste preferences and ever-amorphous fads that we college students tend to cycle through, reaching consumers and maintaining their short-lived attention must be a daunting task indeed. In the face of all this adversity, however, college…
Startup weekend not what Cobbers expected
Zach Lipp, Christoffer Birch-Jensen, Matt Gantz and Levi Bachmeier signed up for the Startup Weekend event expecting 54 hours of serious work committed to ideas that would significantly influence the community. Once they arrived, they witnessed something else. Startup Weekend, a nonprofit initiative that promotes entrepreneurship, came to Fargo on March 8 for the weekend…