Student Success - Alumni

At Woven Future’s we envision a world where indigenous artisans are valued and add value to the world. In mass production and imitation, culture and consciousness is lost. Our mission is to preserve traditional weaving practices in Latin America by creating unique cultural fashion for modern times. We partner with indigenous textile weavers in Guatemala to create handcrafted, naturally dyed, bohemian handbags and accessories for women. Originally from Guatemala, founder Hannah King saw an opportunity in the beautiful and colorful textiles that weavers created.

We all have someone or something that motivates us – it’s who we play for. Who We Play For (WWPF) is a non-profit organization motivated by the young lives lost to Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). By providing cardiac screening and increasing awareness, our fight is to help ensure other families, schools, and communities will never know the pain of losing a loved one to SCA. By partnering with hundreds of schools and sports clubs across the country, WWPF provides simple and effective electrocardiogram (ECG) heart screenings to young people, particularly student athletes.

The EPSON International Pano Awards showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest competition for panoramic photography. This year, Thomas Goebel, entrepreneurship major, entered his photography along with 1770 other entries. He was awarded a silver award for his photograph, “Punchbowl.” This is Goebel’s first international award. The competition was judged by many photographers who inspired him to pick up a camera and are the leaders in the field of landscape photography.

TerraVida Co. is a cruelty-free fashion brand created and ran by me, Ana Sanchez, and my two entrepreneur partners Briana Blankhorst and Madi Grybek in Tallahassee, Florida. It was launched with the help of the Entrepreneurship Program at the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. TerraVida was created with the idea of mixing our different personalities in order to create a boho chic jewelry collection.

Nick O’Donnell is a 2015 FSU graduate living in the Sarasota area, where he runs his company Terraform Design.  Having started his company while taking business classes, Nick’s work exemplifies the key parts that design and creativity play in the world of Entrepreneurship.  Nick was awarded the Governor’s Young Entrepreneur Award for his work this past November, and has had his geometric furniture & lighting published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  Being a huge fan of the creativity process of conception to realization, hi

The cell phone is the remote control of our lives and the social media platforms are the channels we watch every single day. The Social Source understands the importance, but more so the urgency, of building a strong and lasting presence on social media. The digital environment we live in is ever-changing. Our team works diligently to best position businesses and brands to take full advantage of the opportunities provided by this transitional period. We offer a range of services from social media marketing & advertising to website design.

Queralyze is a supplemental education program, designed to assist students in succeeding in school, and to help teacher’s better assess student performance while addressing their specific educational needs. In the United States, state governments spend on average 3.2 billion dollars a year in college on remedial education. In 2014 I (James Stage – Florida State), Mason Roth (Florida State), and Dr. Steven Sherman (Troy University), developed a program to address the issues that have led to students needing remedial education.

ProFi FM is the leading provider of facility maintenance services to commercial facilities throughout the Southeast United States. We specialize in commercial janitorial services, grounds keeping, quality flooring, day/ night porters and sanitation; through innovation and technology. We serve office parks, commercial real estate, medical facilities, education centers, entertainment centers, auto dealerships, government facilities, business/ banking venues, the food industry and much more.

Pop Your Top creates and sells custom themed bottle openers. The idea came about from my sisters wedding when she gave every guest a California shaped bottle opener that my soon to be brother in law created in his sheet metal shop. As soon as I saw it, I knew he was on to something… and the idea was born. I had him design me a Florida State themed bottle opener, and we have since expanded into many different designs.

PlayBall, created by Hernan Bater and Gabriel Grynsztein, is a mobile application that helps find and create pick-up games for students. PlayBall takes away the everyday hassle of organizing pick-up games and helping students integrate into their university via sports. Hernan and Gabriel are first-generation immigrants that met at Florida State with a deep rooted hunger for innovation and success. Hernan came up with the idea when he realized there was a struggle organizing soccer games on campus.