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Intellect

BYU researchers: How a switch to a 'growth mindset' is helping empower entrepreneurs in developing nations

By Carl Stengel
August 08, 2023
Although millions are spent each year on entrepreneurship training that is intended to help alleviate poverty and elevate the quality of life of entrepreneurs in developing nations, these programs often fail to make an impact. BYU researchers and their colleagues have figured out at least one way to change that.
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Intellect

BYU’s next unicorn? Student startup “Zaymo” has won more than $900,000 in prize money this spring

By Carl Stengel
June 26, 2023
Zaymo, with its e-commerce tool that embeds the online shopping experience within a customer’s email, took home $875,000 in total cash investments after taking third place at the 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition last month. This comes after winning the $30,000 grand prize at the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge earlier this year.
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Intellect

Banks offer Black entrepreneurs inferior loans even when they are better qualified than peers

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
June 16, 2023
A newly published paper co-authored by a BYU business professor finds banks still offer Black customers inferior loan products and service, even when those Black customers have objectively stronger financial profiles and FICO scores than White customers.
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Intellect

Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and taking eyecare to third-world countries: BYU student innovators deliver again

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 11, 2022
Every year innovative students at BYU give their best shot at developing new technologies that can make the world a better place. With $50,000 in prize money on the line, the 2022 Student Innovator of the Year Competition once again delivered potentially life-changing results.




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Intellect

New personal branding course educating BYU student-athletes on business in the time of NIL

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 26, 2021
Class teaches principles of success for life beyond college athletics
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Intellect

Nature Study: Increasing number of university-licensed startups in the U.S. are not actually operating

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 23, 2020
An analysis of the Top 50 patent-producing universities in the United States finds a staggering increase in the amount of university-licensed startups that exist on paper, but are not really doing anything — no employees, often no physical location, no economic impact, finds the Nature Biotechnology study.
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Intellect

Shark Tank deal for BYU inventors of massage therapy ball

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 28, 2019
Rollins Center-supported startup Myostorm lands deal on ABC's prime-time show.
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Intellect

New BYU student venture: Rockets that make space access affordable

By Whitney Steele
May 08, 2019
Finalist of BYU Marriott School's New Venture Challenge wants to make space more accessible
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Announcements

BYU Law launches LawX, an idea incubator within a classroom

June 19, 2017
BYU Law School announced the launch of LawX, a legal design lab that will create products and other solutions to address the pressing issues relating to access to legal services. 

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Intellect

BYU students make winter hammocking a warmer reality

By Alec Sears
April 23, 2017
BYU's 2017 Student Innovator of the Year created a lightweight insulator that covers hammocks for cold-evening camping.

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Intellect

Student-created budgeting app will finally save your budget

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 27, 2017
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget. One BYU student wants you to give it one more shot, using his budgeting app.

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Intellect

BYU mobile app winner makes keeping a journal easier than ever

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 21, 2016
Journaling app "Journey" beat out more than 25 other student-made mobile apps (with everything from games to social media apps) to win the BYU Mobile App Competition.

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