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Some <span style="font-size[https:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the biggest successful entrepreneur story //glamst.com GlamST] started in 2009, when Agustina Sartori and Carolina Bañales, two telematic engineersEngineers, decided to innovate innovase in the beauty Beauty and cosmetics Cosmetics area. They received funds Funds from ANII, settled their office at the university and with some student interns interés developed the first prototype of a virtual makeover. The product was sold to a local store and after that Start Up Chile, 500 Startups and Plug and Play supported and invested in their new app: [[GlamST]]</span></span></span> [[File:Sartori banales.jpg|link=Special:FilePath/Sartori_banales.jpg]] ''<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agustina and Carolina founders of GlamST</span>''
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span>[http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Montevideo</span>] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(UM) </span>started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more.</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>]</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. To accompy this entreprenurial Spirit UM has created INITIUM. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an Innovation and entrepreneurship minaste. There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Initiative or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creativity and Innovation where students are working in a very interesting project for the women's Prison of Montevideo.</span>
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Some succesfull entrepreneurship stories that originated with the help of INITUM are the following:
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Social entrepreneurship is also something that is being fostered at UM. Valentina Quagliotti was one of the first entrepr</span>eneurs in Uruguay to combine a business model with a social cause when she found [[Iuski]], a social video production startup. She also was the first Director of [[SocialLab]], a latin american pre incubator for social ventures.</span></span></span>
