University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

School:Ohio University

2014-04-06T06:20:21Z

Umutuku:

= Ohio University =

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== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio University ( [http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/ http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/] ). The CfE also supports entrepreneurial student organizations and events, such as Ohio University Entrepreneurs (an organization that brings together students who have started, or plan to start a business, launch an product, or license a technology), the local chapter of Enactus (an organization dedicated to providing practical and sustainable business solutions to social and environmental problems), Think Design (a student advertising agency), Consulting Fellows (an organization dedicated to building soft skills for business), and Epsilon Nu Tau (the entrepreneurship fraternity). The CfE also helps organize events for business plan and idea pitching competitions.

More information and news about programs under the umbrella of the CfE can be found here: [http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/ http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/]

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

More on this topic following future interviews with faculty members.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

The Technology Transfer Office focuses on protecting the IP of faculty members and finding a market for their technologies.

More information about the TTO can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/]

== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ==

The Innovation Center previously ran an accelerator program (which I believe is being restructured at the moment), and acts as an incubation facility for startups built by students, faculty, and local entrepreneurs.

More information about the Innovation Center can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Techgrowth Ohio handles much of the regional economic development efforts. It was started by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and public affairs after receiving a Third Frontier grant.

More information about Techgrowth Ohio can be found here: [http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html]

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert John Herbert]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University Ohio University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities John Herbert's Ohio University Strategic Priorities Page]

School:Ohio University

2014-04-06T02:15:41Z

Umutuku:

= Ohio University =

== I&E Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnofzJVM8jGcdGdSXzBoRk1OYmJQN0kzd1lyV1E4OHc&output=html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnofzJVM8jGcdGdSXzBoRk1OYmJQN0kzd1lyV1E4OHc&output=html]

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio University ( [http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/ http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/] ). The CfE also supports entrepreneurial student organizations and events, such as Ohio University Entrepreneurs (an organization that brings together students who have started, or plan to start a business, launch an product, or license a technology), the local chapter of Enactus (an organization dedicated to providing practical and sustainable business solutions to social and environmental problems), Think Design (a student advertising agency), Consulting Fellows (an organization dedicated to building soft skills for business), and Epsilon Nu Tau (the entrepreneurship fraternity). The CfE also helps organize events for business plan and idea pitching competitions.

More information and news about programs under the umbrella of the CfE can be found here: [http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/ http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/]

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

More on this topic following future interviews with faculty members.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

The Technology Transfer Office focuses on protecting the IP of faculty members and finding a market for their technologies.

More information about the TTO can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/]

== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ==

The Innovation Center previously ran an accelerator program (which I believe is being restructured at the moment), and acts as an incubation facility for startups built by students, faculty, and local entrepreneurs.

More information about the Innovation Center can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Techgrowth Ohio handles much of the regional economic development efforts. It was started by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and public affairs after receiving a Third Frontier grant.

More information about Techgrowth Ohio can be found here: [http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html]

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert John Herbert]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University Ohio University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities John Herbert's Ohio University Strategic Priorities Page]

Fellow:John herbert

2014-04-06T02:15:23Z

Umutuku:

= John Herbert =

== Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur ==

I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it.

I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology.

My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing.

I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow.

The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before.

== Life goals: ==

Live a life that was worth it. Create something of lasting value to leave behind. Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome. Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income. Be excellent to as many people as possible.

== Boring professional bio stuff: ==

Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience.

This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image.

[[File:Phoneshot.jpg]]

It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert John Herbert]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University Ohio University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities John Herbert's Ohio University Strategic Priorities Page]

School:Ohio University

2014-04-06T02:08:52Z

Umutuku:

= Ohio University =

== I&E Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnofzJVM8jGcdGdSXzBoRk1OYmJQN0kzd1lyV1E4OHc&output=html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnofzJVM8jGcdGdSXzBoRk1OYmJQN0kzd1lyV1E4OHc&output=html]

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio University ( [http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/ http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/] ). The CfE also supports entrepreneurial student organizations and events, such as Ohio University Entrepreneurs (an organization that brings together students who have started, or plan to start a business, launch an product, or license a technology), the local chapter of Enactus (an organization dedicated to providing practical and sustainable business solutions to social and environmental problems), Think Design (a student advertising agency), Consulting Fellows (an organization dedicated to building soft skills for business), and Epsilon Nu Tau (the entrepreneurship fraternity). The CfE also helps organize events for business plan and idea pitching competitions.

More information and news about programs under the umbrella of the CfE can be found here: [http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/ http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/]

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

More on this topic following future interviews with faculty members.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

The Technology Transfer Office focuses on protecting the IP of faculty members and finding a market for their technologies.

More information about the TTO can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/]

== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ==

The Innovation Center previously ran an accelerator program (which I believe is being restructured at the moment), and acts as an incubation facility for startups built by students, faculty, and local entrepreneurs.

More information about the Innovation Center can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Techgrowth Ohio handles much of the regional economic development efforts. It was started by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and public affairs after receiving a Third Frontier grant.

More information about Techgrowth Ohio can be found here: [http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html]

== Related Links ==

Me: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert]

My Project Priorities: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities]

School:Ohio University

2014-04-06T02:03:02Z

Umutuku:

= Ohio University =

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio University ( [http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/ http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/] ). The CfE also supports entrepreneurial student organizations and events, such as Ohio University Entrepreneurs (an organization that brings together students who have started, or plan to start a business, launch an product, or license a technology), the local chapter of Enactus (an organization dedicated to providing practical and sustainable business solutions to social and environmental problems), Think Design (a student advertising agency), Consulting Fellows (an organization dedicated to building soft skills for business), and Epsilon Nu Tau (the entrepreneurship fraternity). The CfE also helps organize events for business plan and idea pitching competitions.

More information and news about programs under the umbrella of the CfE can be found here: [http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/ http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/]

== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

More on this topic following future interviews with faculty members.

== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==

The Technology Transfer Office focuses on protecting the IP of faculty members and finding a market for their technologies.

More information about the TTO can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/]

== Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration ==

The Innovation Center previously ran an accelerator program (which I believe is being restructured at the moment), and acts as an incubation facility for startups built by students, faculty, and local entrepreneurs.

More information about the Innovation Center can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

Techgrowth Ohio handles much of the regional economic development efforts. It was started by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and public affairs after receiving a Third Frontier grant.

More information about Techgrowth Ohio can be found here: [http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html]

== Related Links ==

Me: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_herbert]

My Project Priorities: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities]

Fellow:John herbert

2014-04-06T02:00:40Z

Umutuku:

= John Herbert =

== Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur ==

I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it.

I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology.

My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing.

I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow.

The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before.

== Life goals: ==

Live a life that was worth it. Create something of lasting value to leave behind. Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome. Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income. Be excellent to as many people as possible.

== Boring professional bio stuff: ==

Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience.

This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image.

[[File:Phoneshot.jpg]]

It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

== Related Links ==

My School: http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University

My Project Priorities Page: http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ohio_University_Strategic_Priorities

Fellow:John herbert

2014-04-06T01:56:41Z

Umutuku:

School:Ohio University

2014-03-14T02:48:35Z

Umutuku: Created page with "Ohio University Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio Unive..."

Ohio University

Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Center for Entrepreneurship houses the academic core of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ohio University ( [http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/ http://www.ohio.edu/entrepreneurship/] ). The CfE also supports entrepreneurial student organizations and events, such as Ohio University Entrepreneurs (an organization that brings together students who have started, or plan to start a business, launch an product, or license a technology), the local chapter of Enactus (an organization dedicated to providing practical and sustainable business solutions to social and environmental problems), Think Design (a student advertising agency), Consulting Fellows (an organization dedicated to building soft skills for business), and Epsilon Nu Tau (the entrepreneurship fraternity). The CfE also helps organize events for business plan and idea pitching competitions.

More information and news about programs under the umbrella of the CfE can be found here: [http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/ http://bobcat-entrepreneur.com/]

Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship

More on this topic following future interviews with faculty members.

Actively supporting the university technology transfer function

The Technology Transfer Office focuses on protecting the IP of faculty members and finding a market for their technologies.

More information about the TTO can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/]

Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration

The Innovation Center previously ran an accelerator program (which I believe is being restructured at the moment), and acts as an incubation facility for startups built by students, faculty, and local entrepreneurs.

More information about the Innovation Center can be found here: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/innovation/]

Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts

Techgrowth Ohio handles much of the regional economic development efforts. It was started by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and public affairs after receiving a Third Frontier grant.

More information about Techgrowth Ohio can be found here: [http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html http://www.techgrowthohio.com/index.html]

Organization:Upstart

2014-03-05T08:07:01Z

Umutuku: Created page with "Upstart Overview Upstart is a crowdfunding platform that takes a rather unique approach to raising money for students. Students sign up for the program and backers may inv..."

Upstart

Overview

Upstart is a crowdfunding platform that takes a rather unique approach to raising money for students. Students sign up for the program and backers may invest in them in exchange for a percentage of their income (up to 7%) for some duration (5 or 10 years).

How Upstart works: [https://www.upstart.com/how_it_works https://www.upstart.com/how_it_works]

High-res intro video on Vimeo: [http://vimeo.com/67417114 http://vimeo.com/67417114]

Crunchbase is listing their current funding as $7.65 Million. [http://www.crunchbase.com/company/upstart http://www.crunchbase.com/company/upstart]

Benefits

Young entrepreneurial students can overcome financial hurdles to starting their own business and get out from under student debt.

Students can begin building their dreams right out of the gate with experienced partners who have a vested interest in seeing them succeed.

Steps for campus integration

Currently waiting to hear back from their staff about the potential to do an interview and discuss this information in detail.

Fellow:John herbert

2014-03-05T03:57:47Z

Umutuku:

John Herbert

Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur

I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it.

I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology.

My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing.

I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow.

The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before.

Life goals:

Live a life that was worth it. Create something of lasting value to leave behind. Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome. Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income. Be excellent to as many people as possible.

Boring professional bio stuff:

Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience.

This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image.

[[File:Phoneshot.jpg]]

It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

Fellow:John herbert

2014-03-05T03:57:07Z

Umutuku:

Fellow:John herbert

2014-03-05T03:54:15Z

Umutuku:

John Herbert

Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur

I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it. I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology. My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing. I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow. The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before.

Life goals: Live a life that was worth it. Create something of lasting value to leave behind. Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome. Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income. Be excellent to as many people as possible.

Boring professional bio stuff: Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience.

This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image.

[[File:Phoneshot.jpg|border|Phoneshot.jpg]]

It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

Fellow:John herbert

2014-03-05T03:52:53Z

Umutuku:

John Herbert Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it. I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology. My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing. I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow. The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before. Life goals: Live a life that was worth it. Create something of lasting value to leave behind. Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome. Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income. Be excellent to as many people as possible. Boring professional bio stuff: Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience. This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image. [[File:Phoneshot.jpg|border|Phoneshot.jpg]] It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

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2014-03-03T04:11:44Z

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John Herbert

Sr. Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University / Entrepreneur

I'm John (friends all just call me Red, or Umutuku -which is a fun way of saying 'Red' with more sylables), and I'm me because somebody had to do it.

I'm a senior who would have graduated this year, but instead took the year off from traditional classes to build our university's first entrepreneurial co-op program. The goal is to give students the opportunity to have a semester free from classes so that they can fully commit to building a startup without compromising between performance of both work and traditional studies while retaining their full-time student status (just as they would in a standard internship based co-op), and leverage their own capital to get started without worrying about covering full tuition. I have two sides to my work this year as I'm trying to get this program started, connected with local entrepreneurial resources, and figure out how it really needs to work in order to be ready for students this fall, but I'm also the first guy going through it too so I also have to focus on actually doing all the work related to product and business development for my technology. My current project for the year is Compact Pizza Robots! I'm shrinking the bulk of pizza prep and cooking into a single box that is smaller than even a conveyor oven alone and automating as much of the process as possible. So if you have an area roughly the size of a pizza box with a little headroom above it and some space to store topping refills then you can start a pizza business or expand the menu that your venue already offers. I'm trying to build this as a more affotdable and accessible means for budding entrepreneurs to enter the pizza market and try new business models that full size pizza kitchens couldn't utilize before. I want to make a successful business out of it, but selling pizza (hopefully for a decent amount of profit) isn't really the big thing that I want to do with my life, so my main focus is on validating that this co-op model can benefit students, universities, and society in order to empower future students with more opportunities to achieve their dreams and do something amazing. I'm pushing to have this new option available to all students in the engineering department this fall, and can hopefully convince other departments to try it in some form as well. It's my vision for every department to have a version of this with a great hub to tie it all together so that students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study (engineering, business, marketing, communications, design, etc.) can come together, complement each other's skillset, and build the technological, economical, and social powerhouses of tomorrow.

The future isn't about maintaining a death grip on one job for 40 years, but about how adaptable we are and what we are capable of doing. Everyone owes it to their future self to have taken the opportunity to try starting their own business because you have to leverage so many skills and see things from so many points of view that you can begin to look at problems from sides you wouldn't have even considered before.

Life goals:

Live a life that was worth it.

Create something of lasting value to leave behind.

Produce a singularity point in history where people will look back and wonder how the world became so awesome.

Produce more agile and streamlined educational systems that are accessible to everyone on earth, regardless of location or income.

Be excellent to as many people as possible.

Boring professional bio stuff:

Work experience: Mechanical (and some facilities) engineering at General Electric, Diabetic research at OU Biomedical dept., Photovoltaic installation at Third Sun Solar and Wind, Helical wind turbine prototyping and high efficiency/green home design at Emega Biocomposites, 10+ yrs of construction/HVAC experience.

This is me. I'd say I'm not as strange as I look, but then I'd be telling a pretty epic lie. I also have absolutely no clue how to make this picture smaller so feel free to bask in the glow of my horrible phone camera image.

[[File:Phoneshot.jpg|border|Phoneshot.jpg]]

It's like you can feel the hugs in 3d!

File:Phoneshot.jpg

2014-03-02T21:16:41Z

Umutuku: Phone Selfie

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