{"id":3620,"date":"2016-07-12T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:51:17","slug":"college-dominates-civil-war-shark-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/2016\/07\/12\/college-dominates-civil-war-shark-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Business dominates Civil War Shark Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DiscJam founder Alex Dassise fires away with his throwable speaker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Teams of student entrepreneurs from the College of Business\u2019 Austin Lab program closed their 2015-16 competition season by taking the top two spots at the fourth annual Civil War Shark Tank held recently at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n

Austin Lab is part of the college\u2019s Austin Entrepreneurship Program, which aims to train startup-minded students in design thinking and innovation management and provide them with resources and mentorship.<\/p>\n

Placing first in the Shark Tank were Alex Dassise and Spencer Kleweno, whose company, DiscJam, is a designer and manufacturer of flying speakers that incorporate an MP3 player and Bluetooth speaker into a throwable disc. DiscJam has begun selling a beta version of the product and is part of the summer 2016 cohort at the Advantage Accelerator, OSU\u2019s business incubator.<\/p>\n

Dassise, who just finished his freshman year, developed the product as a means of connecting and communicating with his younger brother, who\u2019s autistic. Sales are under way on a beta version of the flying speakers, which are proving popular with college students. Dassise also hopes DiscJam will catch on in the autistic community, enabling autistic people and their loved ones to better engage with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrow your favorite music\u201d and \u201cconnect through music and motion\u201d are two of the company\u2019s slogans.<\/p>\n

Coming in second were Steven Miller and Moriah Shay of Enterprising Education, which has already raised more than $30,000 to build a mobile makerspace and develop K-12 curriculum in science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship and math. Miller and Shay intend to train undergraduates to run their own socially focused microenterprises that will provide experiential learning opportunities, mentorship and college preparatory resources to students in rural and\/or lower-income school districts.<\/p>\n

DiscJam took home $1,000 for finishing first, and Enterprising Education pocketed $650.<\/p>\n

OSU students from the Entrepreneurship Club took the top three spots in the elevator-pitch competition held in conjunction with the shark tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very proud of all of our students and I think this has been a great way to cap off our entrepreneurship competitions for 2016,\u201d said Dale McCauley, program manager for the College of Business\u2019 Austin Entrepreneurship Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teams of student entrepreneurs from the College of Business\u2019 Austin Lab program closed their 2015-16 competition season by taking the top two spots at the fourth annual Civil War Shark Tank held recently at the University of Oregon. Austin Lab is part of the college\u2019s Austin Entrepreneurship Program, which aims to train startup-minded students in … <\/p>\n

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