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Meet Sara Gutterman , a CU Â鶹ӰԺ Alumna, CEO, and Co-Founder of Green Builder Media! Green Builder Media is North America’s leading media company focused on green building and sustainable living practices. Sara was born in Colorado and decided at a young age that she wanted to dedicate her professional...

Deming shined among the top entrepreneurship programs in the world for its trailblazing initiative for CU’s student-athletes, Buffs With a Brand. The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at Leeds School of Business celebrated an impressive win at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) conference last month, when it clinched the...

Meet Jake Groth and Alex Smith , current seniors at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and Co-Founders of Shivoo! Shivoo is a digital platform that allows users to discover public events in their area and plan private events of their own. Jake and Alex both attended high school in Denver, CO, and played...

The latest Creative Distillation research podcast delivers a spirited discussion on creating a sense of shared ownership and a pop-quiz on research from the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. What if “try walking in my shoes'' was more than a lyric but an actual approach to building a business? The famous idiom...

Meet Hagan Kolanz , a current Senior at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and former Founder of Hyperion! Hyperion was a specialty glasses company that created liquid crystal lenses with the ability to quickly adapt to changing lighting conditions depending on the environment. Hagan was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado, and moved...

Meet Max Young , founder of Hooot! Hooot is a mobile app designed to provide immediate assistance to those who feel that they are in a dangerous situation by allowing the user to say a codeword or phrase into their phone and the app will immediately alert the user’s emergency...

Through COventure Forward , our featured mentor of the month, Steve Busch , has worked with hotels, restaurants, insurance agencies, clothing companies, and tech startups. As Principal Consultant at Human Resources Strategies, LLC , his specialty is human resource management, more specifically, finding the right people, developing talent, and leveraging...

Heather Browning , of Colonial Benefit Group , joined COventure Forward for help with marketing and business development. The pandemic has been a great time for businesses to explore networking and marketing on social media. This is what her mentors Stephen Miller and Janet Eden-Harris have helped her with. Colonial...

Meet Steven Winterbach , Co-Founder of the Colorado-based composting and recycling company, Next Use . Steven is currently studying Management and Entrepreneurship with an emphasis in Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the Leeds School of Business. Steven was raised in South Africa and moved to England in 2011 where he...

Meet Madeline Freeman , a current student at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and Founder of the NoSo November campaign. NoSo November is a campaign that challenges individuals to log off all social media accounts for the entire month of November in order to educate the public on the impact social media has...