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== Student Entrepreneurship ==

~~Sample text~~There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. Most of them start this path before graduating but it is also often that alumni become entrepreneurs after some professional experience or completing an MBA.

One of the biggest successful entrepreneur story started in 2009, when Agustina Sartori and Carolina Bañales, two telematic engineers, decided to innovate in the beauty and cosmetics area. They received funds from ANII, settled their office at the university and with some student interns 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: [https://glamst.com/ GlamST].

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''Agustina and Carolina founders of GlamST ''

Social entrepreneurship is also something that is being fostered at UM. Valentina Quagliotti was one of the first entrepreneurs in Uruguay to combine a business model with a social cause when she found [http://ikusi.org/ Ikusi], a social video production startup. She also was the first Director of [http://uy.socialab.com/ Socialab Uruguay], a latin american pre incubator for social ventures.

Not everybody succeed at first attempt, that is why Ignacio Menafra started Wanna an e-commerce portal and his fourth venture. Fortunately there are a lot of successful stories and you can know more about them [http://initium.uy/#video-empren here].

== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

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