Business & Entrepreneurship

Peter Boumgarden, director of Olin Business School’s Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to expand the small business tax credit and other ways in which the government can support existing small businesses.

The WashU Venture Network Follow-on Investments is a joint effort between WashU’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative.

WashU Olin Business School’s entrepreneurship program will award two $25,000 grants to WashU-founded or St. Louis-based startups. Applications are due by Oct. 1.

Chiara Munzi and Izzy Gorton met in a WashU entrepreneurship class and made their first batches of ChiChi hot chickpea cereal in the Skandalaris Center. Two years later, the brand is booming and the founders will be featured on the Amazon series “60 Day Hustle.”

The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded more than $125,000 in funding to WashU startups at its spring awards ceremony.

As an Olin Business School MBA student, Franklin Taylor collaborated with mentors and fellow students to build a startup company that aims to help grocery stores alleviate food waste and increase profitability.

The Skandalaris Center awarded more than $75,000 in funding to WashU startups through its annual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards ceremony April 19.

Sophomore and ice cream fanatic Harrison Lieber hosts the grand opening of Campus Creamery, a late-night ice cream shop, on Thursday, March 30. Located on the South 40, the business is serving vanilla ice cream blended with a variety of mix-ins such as Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs, Oreos and marshmallows.

Washington University in St. Louis spends $28 million in summer stipends and wages to prepare students for future careers, strengthen the St. Louis region and fuel the local economy.