Student Businesses 2007-2008
HOTEL PROXY
Hotel Proxy is an exclusive, online community for hotels to share rates and availability information on a daily basis. [read more]
TEMPORARY INK SANITY
Melissa Molaire isn't into tattoos, but she loves body art. [read more]
ANDREW KUPCHIK AND CERION
One of the capabilities of the Simone Center is to research opportunities for innovative products and to act as a liaison between companies and academia.
Cerion Advisory Board, From L to R: Dr. Elder, Uof R, Lisa DeLouise, PhD, U of R, Andrew Kupchik, RIT, Mick Stadler, Cerion Technology President, Ken Reed, Cerion Technology CTO
Consider the case of Andrew Kupchik and Cerion Technology. Cerion is a leader in the field of nanoparticle technology and Mr. Kupchik is an MBA student at the Saunders College of Business at RIT. Under the auspices of the Simone Center, Mr. Kupchik researched the capabilities of Cerion's technology as it applied to the medical field and helped identify opportunities for possible commercial exploitation of the technology. To that end, Mr. Kupchik located medical researchers at the University of Rochester whose work intersected with Cerion's innovative expertise and facilitated a meeting between all of the interested parties. The result of that meeting was an agreement for preliminary resesarch to validate certain assumptions with an eye toward future collaborative
DARK WIND MEDIA, LTD.
Pancreas visualization
A recent company to join Venture Creations is DarkWind Media, a software development firm started by RIT students Colin Doody and Brian Johnstone. [read more]
CASEY JORDAN: JORSEK
In June of 2006, Casey Jordan from RIT teamed up with Patrick Bosek of the University of Buffalo at RIT’s Student Business Development Lab. They started Jorsek, their company, as a provider of web development. Jorsek has created a document management and publication suite, which they have begun to sell. [read more]
BRIAN BENNETT AND MATT SMITH
Mr. Bennett was granted a BS in Information Technology from RIT in 2007 and is currently pursuing an MBA at the Saunders College of Business. During the course of his work in achieving his MBA, Mr. Bennett has partnered with RIT scientists on two different projects, each of which highlight the capabilities of the Simone Center. [read more]