Coming up on MSUEA's speaker series is Seth Killian, CEO and Co-Founder at Lingco. Lingco is an adaptive learning platform for a multitude of languages. It is primarily focused on being used in schools to amplify language learning and comprehension. Unlike competitors, Lingco uses artificial intelligence to determine students' competencies in vocabulary and grammar structures, so that it can give actionable resources to instructors to create a more efficient and beneficial learning atmosphere.

He is a Michigan State Alumni and has a background in software engineering at TechSmith Corporation. Additionally, he worked as a learning assistant for a programming course.

Join us for this excellent networking opportunity to learn more about Seth Killian and his experience as a young entrepreneur.

Reuben Levinsohn has been a business man and entrepreneur since his early twenties. While studying Business Finance at Michigan State University, Reuben bought a national home improvement franchise which he built up from scratch to over 40 employees and one of the largest painting companies in Michigan. While running his business he also began acquiring commercial and residential real estate investment properties.

Understanding the importance of financial planning, and having a very positive experience with his own financial advisor, he sold his franchise and became a financial advisor with the goal of having a positive impact on others.

Reuben provides solutions for businesses in the area of health and ancillary benefits, retirement plans, key person protection, business buy-sell funding, and owner and partner financial strategies.

He is also an investor and co-founder at Blue Owl Coffee in REO Town. His role is focused on brand and location expansion strategy, real estate, and space negotiations.

Another startup he is investor and co-founder at is Lingco. It is an adaptive / individualized, web-based language learning platform, custom tailored for university level language instructors. His role is CFO, handling financials, legal, funding, and putting together additional team members.

UpFront is the MSU Entrepreneurship Association's new speaker series focused on bringing in entrepreneurs to speak to the MSU community on the realities and challenges of starting a venture, and most importantly how to overcome!

Student co-founders of Triple 4’s, a personal safety device that reimagines pepper spray.

UpFront is the MSU Entrepreneurship Association's new speaker series focused on bringing in entrepreneurs to speak to the MSU community on the realities and challenges of starting a venture, and most importantly how to overcome!

Broc W. Edwards is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Pronoia, a strategic advisory and investor relations firm, Founding Partner of Exit Quotient Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm and Co-Founder & President at Unleashed, a management consulting firm. Prior to founding these three entities Mr. Edwards worked several years on Wall Street as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and Raymond James, where he specialized in M&A and capital markets advisory for diversified industrial and specialty finance companies. Mr. Edwards earned a B.A. in Finance from the Eli Broad College of Business and a minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the Burgess Institute at Michigan State University.

UpFront is the MSU Entrepreneurship Association's new speaker series focused on bringing in entrepreneurs to speak to the MSU community on the realities and challenges of starting a venture, and most importantly how to overcome!

As President & Chief Operating Officer, Ryan Schram provides day-to-day leadership and managerial oversight for IZEA – championing the needs of its team members, clients, partners, and creators around the world.

With over two decades of leadership experience at the intersection of marketing, media, and technology, Ryan has an established track record of driving growth, efficiency, and profitability for leading-edge companies. In addition to his responsibilities at IZEA, Schram has been actively involved as a board member, advisor, and mentor, for companies including 6×6, TechStars Mobility, Stage Leap, ProfitStreams, and Stratos.

An innovative entrepreneur, Andrew celebrates every aspect of what it means. A husband, father, farmer, business owner, and spiritual explorer are some of the avenues in which Andrew cultivates his perspective.

Andrew’s commitment to blazing his own trail has served him well professionally; he turned an obscure college idea, which would later become Blake’s Hard Cider Company, into one of the fastest growing beverage companies in the country. All of this happened while Andrew worked to evolve the fields that raised him, by transforming Blake Farms into a leader in the agricultural space and becoming one of the preeminent destinations in the Midwest.

Rachel is the founder and CEO of Love Stories TV: a global media brand which provides entertainment and wedding inspiration through uplifting, high quality, and emotional video content. As the only video platform in a $300 billion industry, Love Stories TV reaches 40M+ monthly viewers through their website, social, and streaming TV channel. Love Stories TV has the industry's only streaming TV and Snap Discover channels, largest YouTube and TikTok channels, as well as deeply engaged audiences on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and more.

We’re hosting Jeremy Redman, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, at The Gaynor Lab!

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PitchMania! is a five-finalist amateur pitch competition held by the MSU Entrepreneurship Association. Finalist teams each have 5 minutes to pitch at the event in front of a panel of three judges. The teams are competing for assorted cash prizes with a total value of $1,350. Plus, the MSUEA will be offering free food and drinks for all guests! Apply to pitch here or RSVP here.

Mike was the cofounder of Wisely, and sold the company to Olo (NYSE: OLO) in 2021 for ~$200M. The Wisely founding story included a few major product failures, missed payrolls, and near-death experiences. He believes startups are a force for good in the world, and loves helping founders start and scale their companies. He wishes he started a company in college, and consequently endeavors to convince Spartans of today to take the entrepreneurial leap while at MSU.

Malik Hall is a Technical Program Manager at Microsoft, overseeing the deployment of New Technology hardware for Azure Cloud Platform. Malik is the co-lead for Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft, and helps the tech giant form foundations and strategies on diversity and inclusion.

Additionally, with an overall goal of enhancing our lives by building new technology to serve humanity better & to tie his background together to figure out how I can create technology that serves a sociable purpose; Malik is also a co-founder of a startup called JustGrabit which was selected to participate in Version One Accelerator program.

The MSUEA has been invited to a tailgate at the Porsche Okemos dealership! We'll take the Entrepreneurship Bus to Okemos for an event of fun, food and drinks! Go Green!

Join the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Michigan State University and the MSUEA for an exclusive Meet & Greet event on Friday, October 14, 2022 at 1:00pm at the Hatch (325 E. Grand River Ave., Ste. 345, East Lansing, MI 48823). Complimentary lunch will be provided! You are welcome to arrive to the MSU Hatch as early as 11:45am.

We’re hosting Founder and Managing Partner at Macatawa Capital, Jonathan Schimmel. Macatawa Capital is a biotech tools and molecular diagnostics focused angel investment fund.