Prospective companies vie for $30,000 in prizes at CSUMB’s annual Startup Challenge this Friday

Winner of the 2022 Startup Challenge Venture Division: Little Feet PackagingPicture: Brad Barbeau of CSUMB; Nigel Rivers & Nicholas De Luca of Little Feet Packaging; Tom Armstrong of White Summers; and…

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Twenty-Seven Local Startups Advance to the Final Round Startup Challenge Monterey Bay 2023

Twenty-seven innovative and exciting new businesses have been selected to be this year’s finalists in the 2023 Startup Challenge Monterey Bay. The following companies from Monterey, San Benito, and Santa…

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CSUMB institute takes the reins on its business start-up event

*This article was originally published on csumb.edu at https://csumb.edu/news/news-listing/csumb-institute-takes-the-reins-on-its-business-start-up-event/ After a decade of partnering with an international start-up accelerator, CSUMB’s College of Business has decided to go it alone. What was…

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No Taste Like Home: How Percy’s Pies grew from passion project to profit

https://youtu.be/7tQouXS5hgc If you’ve ever felt homesick for your favorite comfort food, you’ll understand. Today Percival Lammie and his partner, Kim Lammie, run Percy’s Pies— a gourmet Louisiana-style sweet potato pie…

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When (Tech) Stars Collide: How Seeds4STEM took root at Startup Weekend 2021

https://youtu.be/RxVU8DOYGwY When Shannon Bliss and Samantha Avina met at Techstars Startup Weekend Monterey Bay 2021, it was kismet.  As Avina watched former Hartnell College Dean of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…

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