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Furman Founders is a network for any entrepreneur associated with Furman University, including alumni, current students, and future students. The mission of Furman Founders is to network founders together to help students improve the human condition through entrepreneurship. While this page is hosted by the Entrepreneurship Track in the Business and Accounting Department at Furman University, entrepreneurs from any department, major, or interest at Furman are invited and welcome!
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- 501-1,000 人
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- Greenville，South Carolina
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- 2024
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- Entrepreneurship, Startups, Higher Ed, Entrepreneurship Education, Business, Business education, Innovation
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Several weeks ago we covered how Furman University alum (‘24) Conor Dowler was working hard on his startup Palate Pal. Well…it’s LAUNCH TIME! Follow Conor and Palate Pal to stay up to date. Another post about another awesome Furman Founder!
Welcome to Palate Pal! We are on a mission to make wine easy and fun for all people. Check out our website to learn more, follow our Instagram for fun wine education, and be on the lookout for Palate Pal in a restaurant near you!
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Does your investment in entrepreneurship and innovation education at Furman University matter? YES! Lilly Woo is an amazing Furman student who recognized a problem in her own life: the challenge of getting enough protein in vegan choices. What did she do? She started learning how to solve the problem. She talked to people. She experimented. She found a network of people who helped her learn about the food production element and found spaces to experiment on her recipes. She entered AND WON the Paladin Pitch. She worked with mentors through The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University and entrepreneurship faculty like Steve Stewart. Then she continued. This is innovation at Furman, and it's worth the investment! If you're near Nashville, find Lilly and Woo Mylk.
Woo Mylk by Lilly Woo coming soon and it’s so delicious! If local to Nashville and interested in a healthy plant based ice cream, email [email protected] ?? Find on Instagram @woomylk
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Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Furman University. Educator | Startup and Small Business Advisor | Consultant
Dr. Mary Frances Duncan is a Furman University alum and the founder of Simply Southern Chiropractic Center. She has great content for any startup founder in professional services, and lays it all out there about the ups and downs of professional practice ownership. One interesting idiosyncrasy of professional services entrepreneurship is the challenge of scaling. Revenue is generated most often by direct client contact, and most value-creating activities are custom. Think about it...no two patients are the same, no two law clients are the same, no two accounting clients are the same, etc.. While value-creating activities are often "standardized" in the sense that you can apply similar frameworks of treatments/services/etc., each individual case requires in-depth analysis and application. Professionals also have to maintain advanced qualifications/certifications and continuing education hours. They are a unique segment of entrepreneurs. Aside from that...there's selling/client development, typical 3-B's (buildings, budgets, bodies/HR) and operations concerns, insurance and legal, accounting and finance, etc. Dr. Duncan's content does a great job of reaching into the "what they didn't teach you in professional school" nitty-gritty of it all. Give it a look! Furman Founders #professionalentrepreneurs #chiropractor #professionalservices #medicalpractice #professionalservices #entrepreneurship
Doctor of Chiropractic | Podcast Host of ‘Million Dollar Chiro: The Podcast for Chiropractic Practice Owners’ | Business Coach | Entrepreneur
Whether you're about to graduate and thinking of opening your own practice, or a practice owner wanting to know "Does anyone else feel this way?" - this is a great read for anyone wanting to know what it's like to be a practice owner!
Carrying the Weight of Ownership
Mary Frances Duncan，发布于领英
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Another great Furman Founder who came through the new entrepreneurship curriculum (still in development!) and is building a great idea. Conor Dowler had idea after idea after idea throughout college, while he managed being a D1 athlete soccer player and leading in his campus FCA chapter. He pursued these ideas through pitch competitions (winning and placing), talks with faculty and local entrepreneurs, and taking advantage of The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University activities. And beyond that…he’s just plain and simple one of the best humans you’ll ever meet. Watch Conor for great things!
Founder of Palate Pal, Student-Athlete, Communication Graduate Student at the College of Charleston
I am so excited to announce that I have partnered with DocuForge to help build the very first version of Palate Pal! I can't wait to see this vision become a reality and turn the world of wine upside down! I have always heard about and seen entrepreneurs having to overcome a lot of adversity when their plan A, B C, D and so on didn't turn out the way they hoped. Even still, I became very discouraged when problems started to arise in my flawed linear plan. Weeks of trial and error and no success trying to build a working prototype lead me to pivot and go back to the drawing board. Eventually, I made the decision to find someone who had the skills that I lacked in order to progress. In that time, I was fortunate enough to meet Cameron Lloyd via LinkedIn who, along with Sid Kapoor and Gerald Ford, had the skills and resources that I was looking for. Since then, I have had great meetings with Docuforge along with other amazing teams and talented people which I am so grateful for. Other than getting one step closer to rolling Palate Pal out in restaurants, the thing that I am most excited about is teaming up with fellow entrepreneurs in the same position as me. The Docuforge team is made up of some great guys from Seton Hall who also competed in pitch competitions and want to take their vision past the idea stage, just like me. God's timing truly is the best timing and this is yet another example of that. Not long until Palate Pal is in a restaurant near you...
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This is a game changing program and team…these Furman University students, the The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University team, a strong team of mentors and speakers, NextGEN, and the Greenville City Economic Development Corporation and City of Greenville, South Carolina and Greenville e-ship ecosystem startup founders who lent their time, attention, and startups to develop future Furman Founders from this incredible team of students. This is what a vibrant partnership between a university, an incredible city, a visionary university institute, and a dedicated and intentional startup ecosystem does…it develops future founders. Bryan Davis Eric Cooperman Rachel Morris Anne Silliman Mary (Mazi) Aarts Eric Weissmann Steve Stewart
Building Award-Winning Entrepreneurship Programs | Inspiration Champion | Facilitator + Speaker
Super humbled and super proud (can I put those two together?). Yesterday, we tied the bow on a packed summer of experiential learning, new challenges, new connections, new friendships, a couple minor injuries...and GROWTH. Ultimately, the Summer Business Innovation Boot Camp was built with a simple thought in mind. Let’s smash together learning experiences, mentors, local industry, and students…bake for 7wks and see what pops out. What popped out yesterday was three student consulting teams presenting fantastic final deliverables to the ventures/organizations they were paired with. ? In-depth economic development benchmarking reports. ? Door-to-door sales/customer discovery results. ? Customer persona mapping and marketing/branding kits. But that’s not all. Check out some additional highlights from the past 7wks: ? 1,200hrs+ work delivered for local ventures/organizations ? $976 of lemonade sold in 1.5hrs (yes, there’s a bigger story to this one) ? 70 mentoring/coaching/training sessions ? 32 mentors/coaches/speakers ? 9 “Hillympics” challenges throughout summer (shout out to Team Blazer for taking home the gold!!) ? 5 new venture ideas created and pitched ? 4 new internship opportunities post program and counting ? 3 world-class ventures/organizations paired with student consulting teams ? 1 incredibly transformational summer I am sincerely proud of what each student team dug in and delivered in such a compressed timeline. I’d hire any one of them, and it seems like I’m not the only one thinking that. Now, a few big thank-yous are in order. 1) To the core team and dedicated coaches who made this come to life: Anne Silliman, Mary (Mazi) Aarts, Rachel Morris, Eric Cooperman, Les Knight, Ethan Foulkes, Sarah Waylett 2) To the founders/CEOs who took a chance with us on this journey: Daniel Dye, John Barnett – Supermoon // Samuel Konduros and Cameron Campbell – Greenville City Economic Development Corporation // Lindsey Calcutt, PhD – Incora Health 3) To the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the #relentlesschallengegrant for helping us fuel this rocket ship experience! Julie Kunkle, Nancy Conwell, Casi Sims Let’s keep building together ?? Caroline Beardall, Lilia Bellahcen Marah Campbell, Joseph Crayston, Sadie Hill, Thomas Hunter, Samuella Kabila, Anita Mwangi, David Peral, Ryan Roskell, Luke Taylor, Steve Stewart, Niki Kim, CPA, The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University, Furman University #innovation, #leadershipdevelopment, #mindset, #entrepreneurship, #growth
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Aubrey Zoodsma is one of the awesome students in the new Entrepreneurship track of the Business major at Furman. You can check out the business she founded, Astrea, at https://astreagirl.com/
Paladin Pitch – Aubrey ? Have you met Aubrey Zoodsma?!? Aubrey competed in last year’s Paladin Pitch Competition and has since launched her custom jewelry company, Aestrea, here at Furman University! ? Applications for Paladin Pitch are due this Friday, March 1st – apply today! ? https://lnkd.in/e8ahhJPn Bryan Davis Kelly Baird Rachel Morris Eric Cooperman Andrew Farrell Chatham Bonner Mary (Mazi) Aarts
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The Clemens Angel Analyst Fellowship is one of the most sophisticated and pioneering entrepreneurship programs anywhere. The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University, in partnership with VentureSouth, has created an incredible program for Furman University students interested in learning more about the "supply side" of entrepreneurship - the perspective of the angel investor. #angelinvesting #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurshipeducation
Clemens Spotlight – Meet Cameron Baird ‘24!?? Cameron is a Business Administration and Spanish double major who just finished the Clemens Angel Analyst Fellowship! As he prepared for his graduation from Furman this May, Cameron said that the program opened his eyes to “Startups, Entrepreneurs, Investors & Teams. The Clemens Fellowship allowed me to interface with the startup ecosystem of Greenville from all sides.”? Thank you, Cameron, and we are so lucky to have had you in the program! Bryan Davis Kelly Baird Rachel Morris Eric Cooperman Anne Silliman Andrew Farrell Chatham Bonner Mary (Mazi) Aarts
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Always great to see entrepreneurship students being curious, going further, and learning all they can. The Summer Business and Innovation Boot Camp is incredible. Dipak Malla
Meet Dipak Malla ‘26! Dipak was a part of the 2023 Summer Business and Innovation Boot Camp cohort, and says that the program gave him incredible mentors, taught him how to overcome challenges, and “provided a transformative and enriching experience that has prepared [him] for success in the dynamic world of business." The Hill Institute is beyond grateful for incredible students like Dipak and cannot wait to see what the 2024 program holds.? ? Bryan Davis, Rachel Morris, Kelly Baird, Eric Cooperman, Rachel Morris, Anne Silliman, Chatham Bonner, Andrew Farrell, and Mary (Mazi) Aarts
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