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Start Something Spotlights

  • Jeff Bull poses with students in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as part of the Innovation Fellows in Training (I-FIT) program through Iowa State University.
    Innovation is global because problems in need of solutions are global

    September 29, 2025

  • Eleanor Kahn poses for a photo. Eleanor is an Iowa State alumna who is traveling back to campus to talk about innovation and entrepreneurship.
    Exploring Innovation Across Disciplines with Iowa State Alumna Eleanor Kahn 

    September 12, 2025

  • Amanda Beckett holds her award at the Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute Pitch Competition
    Amanda Beckett Wins at Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute Pitch Competition

    September 1, 2025

  • Justin Moran, Amanda Beckett, and Jesse Williams pose together at the Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute
    Justin Moran Shares Big Takeaways from OEI Experience

    August 27, 2025

  • Jesse Williams poses at CYstarters
    CYstarters Helps Jesse Williams Advance Dinder, an App to End Dinner Debates 

    August 19, 2025

  • Jesse Williams poses
    ‘I think it’s so much more than starting a business… I enjoy creating, I enjoy having ideas’: Jesse Williams, software engineering 

    August 19, 2025

  • Shelsy
    ‘Everyone has innovation within them’: Shelsy Aguilar, political science, international studies  

    August 19, 2025

  • Ezra Odole
    ‘To be an innovator, you have to understand that everything that has been created didn’t exist, and so therefore, everything that will eventually exist someday has to be made by someone’: Ezra Odole, computer science  

    August 19, 2025

  • Amanda Beckett
    ‘We can all be entrepreneurs, but it’s how you think about it that makes it innovation’: Amanda Beckett, psychology, leadership  

    August 19, 2025

  • From Soap to Soil: Tommy Collin’s Journey of Innovation and Impact 

    August 19, 2025

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