Many of us at Olin, remember 3Lau when he was a student here majoring in finance. Back then, he was known as Justin Blau. He was headed to Wall Street for a summer internship when he realized with encouragement from Prof. Glenn MacDonald that music was his true passion.
Justin was a member of the BSBA class of 2013 for three years before he dropped out and started performing his EDM mixes at some of the biggest venues in the US.
Watch video and read article on Forbes.com
Patrick Rishe, director of the Sports Business Program at Olin, backs Los Angeles as the best site for the 2024 Olympics in his Forbes.com blog. He writes, “Because they already have numerous facilities in place, this makes it more likely that Los Angeles can be cost-effective in operating the Olympics. Something the I.O.C. wants to see.”
Read entire article, “Facilities, Public Support, Cost-Effectiveness Make Los Angeles Ideal Choice For 2024 Olympics”published: 8/13/15.
Forbes reports on businesses in St. Louis that are vital to the startup community. They call them angel vendors, “companies that, independently or through incubators, offer area startups services ranging from legal work to hosting to marketing on a pro-bono basis. The idea, for these firms, is to improve and expand the St. Louis entrepreneurial “ecosystem” – and maybe find some clients or investments in the process.”
Forbes, “How Two Entrepreneurs Turned Their Passion into Profit with an Urban Winery” Brian Leventhal, BSBA ’05, co-founder of Brooklyn Winery, tells Forbes he was able to access quite a bit of capital from former Washington University classmates and their families when he started raising funds for his urban winery startup in 2010.
Olin Business Magazine featured Brian and other alumni in the wine biz in 2011.
Images from Brooklyn Winery website.
According to a new report in Forbes, St. Louis is among the top five cities in the country gaining jobs in the financial services sector. The industry employs 7.9 million in the U.S. according to Forbes and cities from Arizona to Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri are “stealing jobs from Wall Street.”
The report based on recent and long-term employment trends calculates 87,100 financial services jobs in the St. Louis metropolitan region in 2013 with 1.7% growth over the previous year. Forbes is bullish on the future of financial jobs, “Places like St. Louis, where the industry has grown and approaches critical mass, seem to be in position to make a serious bid for higher-end jobs.”
The top five cities with gains in finance jobs are:
1. Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona
2. San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas
3. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas
4. Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tennessee
5. St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois
Image: Bowling Green, Charging Bull by Wally Gobetz, Flickr Creative Commons
Two recent Olin alumni are featured on the Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, “a tally of the brightest stars in 15 different fields under the age of 30.” Jason Wang, BSBA ’09, CEO of Xi’an Famous Foods and Oliver Kremer, BSBA’08, cofounder of Dos Toros Taqueria are great examples of successful Olin entrepreneurs in the food industry.
We featured Jason in OlinBusiness magazine in 2011 when he had one tiny storefront Chinese take-out location in Manhattan. Today, he has seven locations.
Oliver opened his first burrito joint in New York City in 2009 with his brother. The two Berkeley, California natives have cornered the market on west coast-style burritos with four locations.
They plan to expand to D.C. and Philly later this year.
Congratulations Jason and Oliver! Do you deliver to St. Louis???
