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Philly Made: Mothers Day Gift Edition

These gifts from #TempleMade founders will make this Mother’s Day the best yet.  From great desserts to beautiful jewelry, our gift guide has you covered.  Lokal Artisan Foods, home of the French Toast Bites Charisse McGill, STHM ’03, started Lokal Artisan Foods after being inspired by her daughter’s lemonade stand at the Lansdale Farmers Market. […]

Turning at-home hobbies into booming business success

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that sometimes the smallest joys create the greatest impact. One silver lining of spending extra time at home was the ability to discover new passions or hobbies, some resulting in individuals founding their own businesses. There has been an upward trend in new businesses starting early in […]

The importance of adapting and connecting in business

In his freshman year at Temple University, Anmol Gupta, BBA ’20, took a class with Greg Fegley, director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute’s (IEI) 1810 Accelerator. During the course, Creativity & Organizational Innovation, students are taught about different kinds of entrepreneurship, walked through various types of business models and encouraged to think outside the […]

An interview with SBDC consultant Erika Tapp Duran

Erika Tapp Duran is a consultant at the Temple Small Business Development Center (SBDC). She works primarily with pre-venture and start-up businesses and teaches the BRIGHT business planning course and start-up programming. She brings over a decade of experience in community and economic development in Philadelphia. We recently sat down with Tapp Duran to chat […]

NYCE cofounder takes the next step toward building Philicon Square at Temple through BYOBB

Temple’s own Silicon Valley is about to become a reality at Temple I: The Tech Mansion. 

Philip Michael, entrepreneur, and co-founder of NYCE, a real estate startup, set his sights on Temple University as the site of his own version of a co-living “hacker house” for student entrepreneurs with business venture ideas.

Interview with SBDC Consultant Elaina DeHoratius

From 2018-2019, DeHoratius, BBA ’17, MS ’21 worked at Temple’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) as a graduate assistant and joined Temple’s SBDC as a business consultant in March 2020. She worked in the consulting field for the past few years but has extensive experience working in and with nonprofits, custom brokerage firms, market research […]

Stitching together a business in denim

Located near the intersection of Frankford Avenue and Berks Street in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia sits Franklin & Poe, an apparel outfitter that specializes in durable well made clothing. The store houses garments made of premium materials that are ethically produced and expertly crafted.    Andrew Li, MBA ’16, is co-founder of Franklin & Poe. […]

An Interview with SBDC Senior Consultant, Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus is senior business consultant with the Small Business Development Center and manager of the SBDC location at Temple University’s Ambler Campus. In his work with the SBDC, he provides general business consulting and advising services to businesses in the Greater Philadelphia Region. His focus is on companies involved in manufacturing, new product and […]

Baking up a recipe for future success

Many people started hobbies in 2020 due to being at home during the pandemic. However, Class of 2023 business management major Torri Burrell took her hobby to a new level. She always had a love for baking—at 12 years old, she started out making simple cakes for family gatherings. However, Burrell wanted to master the […]

Spreading smiles with orthodontic entrepreneurship

 Javier Ballesté, MS ’20, never saw his career path leaning towards orthodontic treatment. Yet his passion for entrepreneurship helped spread access to orthodontic therapy. A graduate of the Fox Master of Science in Business Analytics program, Ballesté took his expertise in data-driven decision making to Phimentum in order to provide a solution to the kids […]

Making accessibility accessible for the hospitality industry

In the two years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 27 million travelers with disabilities took a total of 81 million trips, spending $58.7 billion on their own travel alone.  “One of the things I’ve discovered getting my foot in the door of the hospitality industry is that accessibility often feels like a burden for […]

Temple partners with Merchants Fund to transform businesses’ digital services

Through the Institute for Business and Information Technology, students create digital services and e-commerce for Merchants Fund clients affected by COVID-19 PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2021 — Eileen Teti was thinking 2020 was going to be her year. She was in the process of renovating Hair Way to Beauty, a Northeast Philadelphia salon she had purchased […]

Friendship, community and tea: A conversation with two Fox student-entrepreneurs

 Dominick Leuzzi and Matthew McCabe, BBA ’22, founded the Tea Shirt Company in 2019.   The Tea Shirt Company offers screen printing and embroidery services. The company’s name is a play on words, inspired by Leuzzi and McCabe’s beverage of choice during the initial stages of the creation of their business.  “I got to Temple and […]

Founder of Simply Good Jars Jared Cannon to appear on ABC’s Shark Tank

Temple alumnus to pitch company during Friday, March 5, episode of hit television series PHILADELPHIA, March 1, 2021 — Since its founding in November 2017, Simply Good Jars has enjoyed quite the rise. The company’s Simply Smart Fridges were blanketed all over the city, present in gyms, hotels, coworking spaces and even the convention center. […]

Honors student releases music single “Un1ty: An Anthem for Humanity”

With the release of his single, “Un1ty: An Anthem for Humanity,” Rushil Vishwanathan, Class of 2023, draws from the music that has surrounded him since he was a child. He comes from a musical family, but early on, he only saw music as a hobby. It was not until he started to sing, become more […]

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