Press Releases
FEBRUARY 13, 2017 | 3:17 PM
Seven teams of students in the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship are headed to the final round of competition in the 2016-2017 InNOLEvation® Challenge at Florida State University. The students are competing for more than $35,000 and learning valuable lessons about starting a business as they face off in the business model competition. The finals...
JANUARY 1, 2017 | 6:04 AM
New developments continue to sprout like trees throughout Tallahassee and 2017 will be no different. Prepare for the injection of 1,500 new beds for student housing by August along the fringes of Florida State’s campus in the Gaines Street corridor. Downtown is percolating with one of the most talked about initiatives — the Jim Moran...
DECEMBER 27, 2016 | 9:01 AM
Nobody wants bad breath. But it happens. Two years ago, Mike Bracciale was at Strozier Library at Florida State University. It was an ordinary day. He grabbed an iced cup of coffee from the campus Starbucks, got a sandwich and ran into a girl. Conversation blossomed. But the combination of coffee breath and chewed food...
DECEMBER 21, 2016 | 12:32 PM
As a boy, Nick O’Donnell built LEGO men, like a lot of kids. Then he tried to turn those blocky figures into well-rounded characters. “It was always very story-oriented,” he says. “My guys always went on adventures, especially space stuff.” In the drama program at Lakewood Ranch High School, O’Donnell produced swashbuckling plays.
DECEMBER 11, 2016 | 4:44 AM
Contractors are ready to move full-speed ahead in transforming a former downtown bank site into the Florida State University Jim Moran Building. The former home of Guaranty Bank, 111 S. Monroe St., will house the College of Business’s Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship and the university’s new interdisciplinary Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship.
DECEMBER 8, 2016 | 1:48 PM
Florida State University is beginning the first phase of major renovations on a building in downtown Tallahassee that is set to become the new FSU Jim Moran Building. The facility will be home to the College of Business’s Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship and the university’s new interdisciplinary Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship. It’s...
DECEMBER 1, 2016 | 3:51 AM
Florida State University student Nick Telford has won a $1,000 award from the Tallahassee Chamber Entrepreneurial Forum to support his startup business, Fly Mouthwash. Telford, the co-founder of Fly Mouthwash, is one of the 11 startup business teams involved in Domi Station’s “Get Started” program. The Chamber selected three teams to participate in the forum...