{"id":9442,"date":"2023-11-30T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:52:34","slug":"tigers-show-entrepreneurial-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/11\/30\/tigers-show-entrepreneurial-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers show entrepreneurial spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/20231128_JOSCM_EQ-Pitch_ANL-052-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231128_JOSCM_EQ-Pitch_ANL-052-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"(Left to right) First-place winner Parker Owens, second-place winner and doctoral nursing student Lauren Compton and third-place winner and doctoral student in textile and apparel management Jia Wu\" class=\"wp-image-9443\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Left to right) First-place winner Parker Owens, second-place winner and doctoral nursing student Lauren Compton and third-place winner and doctoral student in textile and apparel management Jia Wu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, we hosted the annual pitch competition for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.missouri.edu\/griggs-innovators-nexus\/entrepreneur-quest-student-accelerator\/\">Entrepreneur Quest (EQ)<\/a>, a program that helps students turn big ideas into viable companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the semester, participants work alongside like-minded peers and receive coaching from leading entrepreneurs. At the final pitch competition, they compete for part of a $30,000 total prize pool to make their business a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2023\/kickstarting-bright-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This year\u2019s first-place venture<\/a> was Parker\u2019s Brick Builds, created by Parker Owens, a third-year law student. His business uses LEGO-style blocks to create customized build kits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2018, EQ has awarded more than $175,000 in seed funding while providing more than 50 student teams hands-on experience founding innovative startups. Many Tigers have used EQ to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.missouri.edu\/success-after-eq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launch and grow successful businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.missouri.edu\/news\/searching-for-unicorn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all this year\u2019s participants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, we hosted the annual pitch competition for\u00a0Entrepreneur Quest (EQ), a program that helps students turn big ideas into viable companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}