“Growing up, I always wanted to be a fashion designer,” says Cybelle Richeson, a CU Denver student and Design Horizons fellow. “Now that I’m a bit older and understand more about the industry, a few things have changed. Now I want to create my own sustainable luxury clothing brand and act as a resource for designer brands by selling sustainable fabrics.”  “I think coming to CU Denver was one of the most valuable decisions I could have made for myself and my career,” Cybelle reflects.  Read more

On Wednesday, the University of Colorado Denver Business School and the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship celebrated the grand opening of the new Jake Jabs Event Center, Innovation Suite, and classrooms. Spanning the first three floors of the 1475 Lawrence Street building, these new spaces will help accommodate the growing demand for entrepreneurial and collaborative programming, events, and extracurriculars on the CU Denver campus.  Read more

Come celebrate the grand opening of the new Jake Jabs Event Center in downtown Denver! Stop by the CU Denver Business School to check out the NEW Jake Jabs Events Center, innovation suite, classrooms, and collaborative spaces. After a $12 million donation from Jake Jabs in 2018, the Business School began this three-story infill project 15 months ago. We’re excited to now invite CU Denver students, faculty, staff, leadership, and community partners into the new space!  Read more

Hans Mortimer is excited to begin a new career as a public accountant after graduating from the MS Accounting program at CU Denver in the spring of 2020, just one year after enrolling in the program. Hans’ path to an accounting degree was not straightforward, but his passion for continued growth and learning drew him back to school to study accounting. Hans originally studied biology and K-12 education as an undergraduate at the University of California – Berkeley, where he studied Vitamin A metabolism as a student researcher in the Napoli lab.  Read more

The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship’s Best of Colorado Speaker Series features Colorado’s greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders. Join us as leading scientists and physicians from CU Anschutz’s SPARK program share their work and exciting discoveries. As the night’s featured speaker, Stan Lapidus will share his journey as an inventor, disruptor, and advisor to the SPARK program.  Read more

Denver Startup Week is almost here, and the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship is hosting several sessions at the Business School! Drop by Wednesday morning on your way to a session and chat over coffee with some of our successful alum:

• Josh Churlik (MBA ’06) – Founder, Denver Startup Week; CEO & Co-Founder, Well Data Labs
• Karen Hertz (MBA ’05) – Chief Brewista and Founder at Holidaily Brewing Company
• PLUS more alumni peers, BSAN Committee members, and current students.

Although she didn’t present, Karissa Rund left this year’s Pitch Night as a winner. At the final event for THE CLIMB, a collegiate business plan competition put on by CU Denver’s Jake Jabs for Entrepreneurship, Karissa took home the Social Impact Award for 8 Percent. Her idea wasn’t a product or service though, like those pitched by the other finalists. Instead, it laid out her plan to launch her own book and speaking tour.  Read more