Tag: Olin in the Media

There are only 1,000 Gold Metal Starbucks cards in the world and one of them will be given away in a drawing at the Starbucks in Bauer Hall on Oct. 1, 2015!

The gold metal Starbucks card retails for $450 and comes pre-loaded with $400 to use at Starbucks, plus automatic My Starbucks Rewards™ Gold-level status which includes the following:

• a free birthday treat and 15%off coupon at StarbucksStore.com
• free refills on iced or brewed coffee and tea
• special offers and coupons
• a free drink or food item with every 12 stars

Fill out entry form and deposit in box at the Bauer Hall Starbucks. You can enter as many times as you like – photocopied entries are forbidden. Once activated, the cards are available for use at participating Starbucks locations in the U.S.

Olin BSBA’95 alumnus Don Breckenridge, CEO of Hatchbuck, a St. Louis-based marketing automation and CRM company, tells The Huffington Post how important talent from major universities including Washington University are to the city’s thriving startup ecosystem.

Don Breckenridge

Link to article: How a City’s Business Culture Helps Mold Its Startup Scene

8/31/15

Patrick Rishe, director of Olin’s Sports Business Program, discusses the endorsement income gap between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova on CNN, Sept. 1.

Watch video here.

Invisible Girlfriend, winner of the 2013 St. Louis Startup Weekend and an Arch Grant earlier this year, was co-founded by WashU alumni Matthew Homann, (JD ’93) and Kyle Tabor, PMBA ’13. The service which also offers Invisible Boyfriend, allows customers to create a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend who “exists” on social media including text and phone messages sent to the customer.

Innovoxstl.com reports that the company is changing its name to Invisible Industries and looking to expand its services. Tabor is quoted as saying, “We decided to change the name because frankly, a lot of people laughed at the original name. And we view it as much more serious.”

Invisible Girlfriend employees communicate with customers via text message to help them avoid the “social stigma of being single.” The company also says the service helps people navigate the ever-changing dating scene by providing a safe place to communicate with a real person via text.

If you’re at WashU, you know you’re at one of the best universities in the world, but for the record, it’s been confirmed by yet another ranking. WashU is #32 on the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

According to the Washington Post, the list began in 2003 and uses six objective indicators to rank world universities,“including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index — Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university.”
Link to article

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch caught up with Olin alumna Johnna Beckham, EMBA Class 39, to talk about her startup Johnna Marie Custom Made Clothing for Women.  Professors Ron King and Cliff Holekamp are quoted in the article.

Johnna’s company was in the first cohort of the Prosper Startup Accelerator, set up shop in the CIC @4240 in the Cortex district, and recently moved to larger quarters on Vandeventer where seamstresses piece together custom suits and pants. The company is on track to bring in $70,000 in revenue in its first year according to the Post-Dispatch article.

 Link to article, “Custom Tailor Johnna Marie focuses on un-tapped market: women”

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