An innovative app that connects bars to customers with special discount offerings won the collegiate first prize at this year’s THE CLIMB | Jake Jabs Business Plan Competition, an annual business plan challenge sponsored by the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Patrick Brown, Elliot Bath, and Devin Hougard, founders of the BARVENTURE app, took home $10,000 and a selection of in-kind prizes to support their technology-based business.  Read more

Business Career Connections (BCC) held its first San Francisco Career Trek the week of October 10th. Four graduate students, and 13 undergraduate students attended the trip with Sue Wyman, Director, BCC, and Stephanie Sindt, Career Advisor, BCC.  Students came from Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, International Business, Human Resources and MBA programs.  Read more

The third annual Colorado Business School Career Fair was held at Sports Authority Field on Thursday, September 29^th. 165 employers attended this year’s Career Fair – up from 150 from the 2015 fair. Virtually every industry was represented and sponsors included Level 3, Penske, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Great-West Financial, Janus, Oppenheimer, TIAA, T.  Read more

The Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) in Collaboration with the Information Systems Association (ISA) student club hosted its 11th annual Become a Business Leader with an Edge executive panel event on October 18, 2016. The business leaders from the community gathered for a panel discussion on the importance of acquiring information technology (IT) skills in order to be competitive in today’s business world.  Read more

Each year, CU Denver’s Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship hosts its Business Plan Competition, in which young entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to pitch their ideas to established business leaders, with the winner receiving the financial support needed to start or grow their business. Recently, the Jake Jabs Center hosted a “Shark Tank” style pitch night, the quarter-final portion of this year’s competition, where participants were given two minutes to present their elevator pitch to a panel of esteemed judges, who then asked participants follow-up questions for up to three minutes.  Read more

The room was buzzing with excitement as ten startup teams prepared to pitch their businesses for the chance to win cash prizes and advance in THE CLIMB | Jake Jabs Business Plan Competition. At THE CLIMB Collegiate and Community Pitch Night on Oct. 13, 2016, six collegiate and four community start-up teams presented their elevator pitches to a panel of distinguished local judges and a live audience at Galvanize’s Platte campus in Denver, Colo.  Read more

  The University of Colorado Denver Business School is pleased to present renowned presidential historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, as the keynote speaker for the 2017 Celebration of Success.   Having spent her lifetime studying the U.S. presidency, Goodwin will provide an informed and enthralling analysis on current events with remarkable insight of how history has answered similar questions.   Read more