entrepreneur of the month

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Scott Friedberg ’14

Gilded Social was founded by Scott Friedberg ’14 and Ross Lazerowitz in July of 2012. Lazerowitz was the technical partner and Friedberg ran the business. They launched Gilded with the help of many of the resources for entrepreneurs at Syracuse University. The…

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Douglas Deming ’11

QuestOrganizer is an flight search engine based on mechanical learning that finds savings and adds destinations. The website automates multi-booking travel hack, a technique which connects an optimal combination of one-way flights to build a Quest. This website launched in…

Featured Alumni Entreprenuer: Ryan Novak ’11

Chocolate Pizza has been in Ryan Novak’s blood since he was a toddler. His mother used to take him in a stroller across the street from his home to the Chocolate Pizza Company store where the future owner was skilled…

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: James Shomar ’12 M.S. ’14

James Shomar ’12 M.S. ’14 is the CEO of Solstice Power, a developer of proprietary technology for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) and high power microelectronics industries. CPV is an innovative solar power technology that uses high magnification lenses to focus incoming sunlight…

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Zach Schleien ’12

Zach Schleien ’12 and his mom, Debbie Schleien, launched LIFT Protein Muffins last year. LIFT Protein Muffins is a gluten-free, paleo muffin that serves as a meal replacement. Schleien saw an opportunity in the gluten-free, paleo market. There were few healthy…

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Max Doblin ’15

If you hide a $100 bill somewhere around campus, people will go out and try to find it. That was the simple hypothesis from which Hypeist was born. Max Doblin ’15 and his co-founder, Blake Danzig, also a graduate of…

Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Katherine Desy ’15

RMD Biotech was founded in May 2015 after months of business plan writing, competitions and the question of whether or not a graduating senior should take a job with a reputable company, start her own business…or do both. RMD Biotech…

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