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-19 posts tagged "IDEA Center"
Maggie Eastland | Friday, September 15, 2023
A group of three Notre Dame students have raised $300,000 for a startup aiming to compete with Uber and Lyft on college campuses. Racing to win market share, Desi founders — juniors Liam Redmond, Zach Brown and Rob Corrato — want to create a marketplace where college students who want rides can meet student drivers
Alysa Guffey | Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Desi, a college-exclusive ride-share company, is currently in a closed beta test for limited members of the Notre Dame community — and the company began in the South Dining Hall stir-fry line. Sophomore Liam Redmond first had the idea for Desi in high school when he noticed his friends having a difficult time ordering rides
Observer Staff Report | Thursday, January 12, 2023
Walker Hayes, a popular country music star, will come to Notre Dame during IDEA Week in April, ExperienceND announced in an email Thursday. Hayes will perform at the Purcell Pavilion in the Joyce Center on Saturday, April 15. He will be joined by special guests Ingrid Andress and BRELAND. His performance will kick off IDEA
Kelsey Quint | Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Max Martin, Notre Dame MBA graduate ’22, is launching a university-inspired wrist watch design through his start-up company, Legacy LLC. The company was founded by Martin in Sept. 2020, after completing his undergraduate studies in 2019 at St. John’s University in Minnesota. The original intention behind the company was to provide an alternative to “traditional
Maggie Eastland | Friday, October 28, 2022
A Chicago-based speaker startup has raised $7.5 million in funding — and it got its start at a Hesburgh Library whiteboard. Now headquartered in Chicago, Resonado Labs was founded by Peter Moeckel ‘20, Brian Youngil Cho ‘19 and Erikc Perez-Perez ‘19 while they were studying in the Mendoza College of Business. Since then, the company
Renee Yaseen | Thursday, February 10, 2022
Dear mentors, Do you have a second to talk? I’m sorry to show up like this, without a G-Cal invite or Zoom link. I know you’re very busy. But remember that time when… … You had me make a list of every high school in Southern Indiana and cold call them one by one, as
Mary Ellen Woods | Thursday, February 10, 2022
It was late 2019, and I was between engagements. I was trying to sort out the next stage of my professional life. I had had a great meeting with the then-head of Notre Dame’s IDEA Center and the thought of working with student entrepreneurs sounded interesting. I would love their energy and passion, but wondered
Lauren Kesic | Wednesday, April 28, 2021
IDEA Week, an annual event hosted by the IDEA Center that promotes entrepreneurship and innovation at the University, will take place Wednesday through Friday. In previous years, the event consisted of all in-person events. This year, although some events will be in-person, everything will be live-streamed and online. IDEA Week is broken up into four
Maria Luisa Paul | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
As COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on the U.S. a year ago, daily life saw a rise in different challenges and experiences. For many, the pandemic brought financial complications and increased mental health issues. In the midst of a pandemic that is also hurting businesses, Frank P. Quinn, a former administrative assistant at the IDEA Center’s
Ryan Peters | Thursday, February 11, 2021
Following Mass at St. Joseph Parish in Stuart, Florida, financial professional Craig Price asked his wife Elizabeth Abeyta-Price what she took away from the homily. The focus of the homily was the parable of talents — in which a master entrusts talents to his three servants. Two of them proceed to put their talents to