Out at the Library Courtyard on Oct. 22, the Office of Innovation (OOI) hosted its annual Startup Competition Kickoff Event. Complete with snack tables, a board presenting last year’s competition finalists and comfortable chairs for guest panelists arranged beneath a big banner celebrating the kickoff,...

On Wednesday night in Giumarra Courtyard, the Office of Innovation hosted a lively kickoff event filled with free charcuterie and Chick-Fil-A, as well as a Q&A time and information about the upcoming annual startup competition. Guest speakers Sarah Hartono and Hannah Chu, both Biola alumnae, shared...

For the first time in the history of the Biola Startup Competition, teams were fully online and spread out. This was also the first time competitors were not joined by the late Bob Harp, the founder of the competition, since his death in 2020.  This year’s winning team was composed of junior business...

From the time he began selling milk tea out of his dorm, senior business administration major Brendan Sun has watched his business grow in ways he never thought possible. When Sun heard the announcement that his enterprise Boba for Missions took first place in Biola’s Startup Competition, he said he...

Biola celebrated the launch of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, also known as the Biola Launchpad, on Monday at 5 p.m. at the Fireplace Pavilion. About a dozen students joined the office’s Operations Manager Jordan Terranova and Executive Director Robert Harp to share Chick-fil-A sandwiches...

As the startup competition approaches, the Biola Entrepreneurship Society has begun its recurring series called “Fireside chat with an entrepreneur.” The chats are intended to be a personal way for students of any major to connect with Christian entrepreneurs in order to learn more about their own...

Crowell School of Business is looking for the next Chick-fil-A. The school kicked off its fifth annual startup competition Monday night, aimed at promoting Christians in entrepreneurship. The kickoff event was the first night of the competition and students have until Nov. 25 to register their ideas....

The Business Startup Competition added a new workshop to its itinerary with the addition of Evening with the Stars on Oct. 1. This allowed prospective Startup Competition participants to attend a question-and-answer style workshop, where they got to hear from previous competition winners. The winners...

On Monday, Crowell School of Business hosted the fourth annual Startup Competition Kickoff. For a number of students, this event marked the beginning of their first ever entrepreneurial endeavor. With speaker and CEO of The Giving Keys Brit Gilmore in attendance, aspiring businessmen and businesswomen...

Founded just this year, the Entrepreneurship Society connects students and startups with successful entrepreneurs established in the field. Three of these startups landed in the top three spots of the annual Crowell School of Business Startup Competition:  youniquely_made, Eleven Streetwear andPolymigo. ACHIEVING...