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The Biz Foundry
Eugene Poole
What does the Biz Foundry do?• Educates and supports entrepreneurial companies and individuals in the
region
• Hosts business and technology related classes and events
• Offers co-working space
• Matchmaker
•
Entrepreneurial Developer
Accelerator
Summer Course
Lean Launchpad Software
Business Model Canvas
StartupInnovation Early Stage MaturityExpansion
Lean Launchpad and TN TECH
Experiential Course: Not a Typical Academic Lecture
• Collaboration between disciplines
• Get out of the building
• Flipped classroom
• Different speaker each week
Teams• Froodle - App for rewards and promotion management
•OmniNexus - App for formative assessment
• iGT-HD - Echolocation device to compliment walking cane for the blind
•M-possible N-gineering - PCM derived instant water heater
•REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates)
Biggest Success (thus far)• Team Froodle
• Started with an app for restaurant menus
• Went out in the community and found a different need was more prevalent
• Pivot Time!
• Working on app for restaurant mangers who want to manage rewards and promos better and more efficiently
Biggest Failure
• Communication between students and teachers
• Expectations and pace of this course
• “Handsome Team” had to drop because they fell behind