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  • Jenkins MBA alumnus Ty Hagler Launches 3D Animation Video Project for Client

    March 21, 2013

    Ty Hagler, NC State Jenkins MBA-TEC alumnus recently launched a 3D animation video project for Mustard Tree Instruments®, a client of his company, Trig® Innovation. “This was our first time accepting an animation challenge, and we have been deeply appreciative of the opportunity to continue to expand our capabilities,” Hagler Read More

  • Jenkins MBA HiTEC Alumnus Launching Company Based on Team Project

    October 15, 2012

    The Entrepreneurship Collaborative (TEC) is the NC State Poole College’s home for innovative start-ups and budding entrepreneurs, serving as an ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ that reaches far beyond the NC State University campus. The latest example of their work is Tethis Water Treatment Systems, a new venture that got its start in Read More

  • NC State Student Team Wins Inaugural Social Business Plan Competition

    September 27, 2012

    Pennies 4 Progress was shining brightly at the first annual University of North Carolina Social Business Plan Competition. The non-profit’s team members, NC State students Ryan O’Donnell, Brandon Narybouth, and Kevin Miller, won top prize at the state-wide competition. That was no small feat, considering there were 31 teams competing Read More

  • Jenkins Helped Me Segue from Technology to Business,” Bobby Bahram ’01 Says

    February 24, 2012

    Bobby Bahram (Jenkins MBA ’01) is a successful serial entrepreneur. Since graduating from the Jenkins Graduate School of Management in the NC State University Poole College of Management in 2001, Bahram went on to cofound RadarFind Corporation, a venture capital-backed healthcare IT company in Research Triangle Park, acquired in 2009. Read More

  • Xanofi announces second round of VC funding

    February 20, 2012

    Xanofi, a company specializing in producing custom, low-cost, functional nanofibers, announced its second round of venture capital funding in June 2011. The company was created as a spinoff from the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) program in the NC State Poole College’s Jenkins MBA Program and NC State’s Department of Read More

  • Turning the Refreshable Braille Display Market Around

    February 20, 2012

    William Mears (NC State Jenkins MBA ’11) is psyched. The company he worked with as part of his technology entrepreneurship and commercialization (TEC) concentration in Poole College’s Jenkins MBA program is coming to fruition. It's called Polymer Braille, Inc. and along with post doctorate associate at NC State University Dr. Read More

  • Taking a Concept from Lab to Market

    February 20, 2012

    Dr. Chris Oldham (NC State Jenkins MBA ’10) is moving his company into the marketplace, thanks to the training he received during his studies in the NC State Jenkins MBA program, and its technology entrepreneurship commercialization concentration (TEC). Oldham is a truly devoted NC State alumnus, having earned his bachelor's Read More