Business Builders

This week, we’re honored to host Selom Agbitor, the co-founder of Mad Rabbit, a brand that’s redefining tattoo aftercare. Selom’s impressive journey includes being recognized in FORBES 30 UNDER 30 and making an appearance on Shark Tank ABC! 🦈 His story is packed with entrepreneurial lessons, resilience, and game-changing ideas. Learn how he turned an idea he had in his apartment to a $56 million dollar business! This Wednesday. 7pm. Schoenbaum Hall room 315. See you there!

Just a reminder! This Thursday (October 24th), we’re partnering with the Center For Software Innovation and bringing the team from Book+Street—a fractional finance and human resources company for early-stage startups.    They’re going to share about the essential financial decisions from founders. They plan to cover topics including sharing equity, bringing on investors, expanding your founding team, cap tables, dilutive impacts, equity-based incentives, key legal considerations and so much more. Can't wait to see all of you tomorrow at 5 PM at the Keenan Center (1636 N High St)!  The Ohio State University Center for Software Innovation Chloe Bender Johnston Shereen Agrawal Book+Street The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University College of Engineering

🔊 Are you an early-stage founder? or desire to become one some day? This Thursday's Dig In: Essential Financial Decisions for Founders (in partnership with Business Builders) The team from Book+Street—a finance and human resources services team supporting early-stage startups—will come to share about everything you need to know on Day 1 of starting your business. This includes: 💵 Sharing equity 🤝 Bringing on investors 👯 Expanding your founding team 📊 Cap tables 📉 Dilutive impacts 🫰 Equity-based incentives ⚖️ Key legal considerations and so much more After their presentation, they'll set up at a table so you can ask 1:1 questions. Students, founders, & tech community: Join us! No RSVP required. 📅 Thursday October 24 🕟 5-7PM 📍 Keenan Center, 1636 N High St We'll see you there! cc: Michelle Murcia Trevor G.

Join us this Wednesday at 7:00 pm in Schoenbaum 315 for a special event featuring Matthew Harwit, founder of Stitch AI, a revolutionary visual interface for using generative AI! Matthew is a entrepreneur with an impressive track record, including: -Founding member at Lowkey (a Y Combinator company acquired by Niantic) -Head of IR at Outliers, a $50M venture capital fund -Developer of AI solutions for Lenovo and the hit game Goose Goose Duck -C-suite at AgentLayer, with 170k followers on Twitter and a publicly traded token Matthew will share his entrepreneurial journey, insights, and lessons from the world of AI, startups, and venture capital. Plus, he’s excited to hear your thoughts on Stitch, his latest project. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage directly with him, ask questions, and get involved in the next wave of AI innovation!

Super exciting to see what our exec team is up to! Keep up the great work Rohan Suggala, Alexander McNichols, and Trevor G.! 🚀

Today, we had our final wrap-up with the Too Good To Go x The Ohio State University college street team, led by Rohan Suggala, alongside Mia Palmisano, Alexander McNichols, and Trevor G., with support from our Too Good To Go expansion team members Nathaniel Whitley and Tiffani Chu. Together, we’ve rescued over 9,000 meals in Columbus over the past three months, partnering with independent restaurants across the city. It’s always inspiring to collaborate with such driven students, who manage to balance their studies, internships, sports, hobbies, and social lives with enthusiasm and curiosity. Rohan Suggala, as this year’s president of the Business Builders, OSU's student-led entrepreneurship club, assembled an incredible team and helped redesign the program with intentional focus. Moments like these make me excited for the future of innovation! Where to next?... If you are an undergraduate or graduate student at #Yale (or know someone!) who is passionate about the fight against food waste, let's connect 😊 #collegeambassador #osu #yale #yaleuniversity #toogoodtogo

Student Startup Spotlight This week, Ohio State juniors Max Rojanasakdakul and Roan Kovach will be talking about their experience of building their startup company Blomso! Blomso is a company that created live sensor tech to help farmers reduce fertilizer waste. They were in the 2024 Spring cohort of Techstars Columbus. Come hear their journey of balancing school and entrepreneurship, what it's like being in a Techstars cohort, and what it takes to turn an idea into a thriving business. Even better, bring questions of your own and talk with Roan and Max in an "Ask Me Anything" style discussion. "Every major accomplishment is a mix of seizing opportunities, fortunate timing, and a series of small successes along the way." -Blomso Inc. See you then!

Chloe Bender Johnston and Shereen Agrawal have done a fantastic job putting these Dig Ins together! Highly recommend checking this out! Rumor has it there will be food as well 👀

Ready to take your career to the next level? 🌟Join us this Wednesday, September 18th in Schoenbaum 315 at 7 pm for a professional workshop led by one of our VPs Kevin Ren, who will be talking about landing an internship or job at a startup, along with a LinkedIn session to strengthen your profile and networking strategy. We will also have our $100 ‘Take the Floor’ competition led by our tech team! See you there!

Super excited to announce this years startup career fair on March 25, 2024 If you are a student looking for an opportunity to work with a startup, this event is for you! If you are a startup looking to hire talent from a pool of the brightest Ohio State student, this event is for you and you can register by scanning the QR code below! If you are in our network and can help bring awareness to this event then repost this! Paul Reeder, Jay Clouse, Claire Coder, Ben Gilbert, Ida Abdalkhani, Jack Hutchinson, Robert Nicholson, Rosemary Garry, Jen Schlegel, Zach Boerger, Lucas Williamson, Terry Green, Olivia Weinstock, Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Matt Wald, Jeff Schumann, Erandi De Silva, PhD, Elio Harmon, Paul Cecil, Rachel Friedman, Matthew Benson, Calvin Cooper, Kai McKinney, Brad Browning, Dan Manges, Dan Rockwell, Scott Griffin, Nathan Minns, Ryan McManus, Suzy Bureau, Remington L. Rodney, Chad Goodwin, Rich Granger, Rich Langdale, Chris Borja, Jeremy Taylor, C. Sunny Martin, Bennett Heyn, Joel Furno, Nils ∙ Root and many more!