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Carnegie Mellon University's Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund has awarded $300,000 to six startup companies to assist them in growing their business ventures.
The fund, established by CMU alumnus and Flip Video Camera creator Jonathan Kaplan and his wife, Marci Glazer, provides early-stage business financing and support to alumni who have graduated from CMU in the last five years.
"SMASH" and "The Big Bang Theory" were both up for Best Television Series at this year's Golden Globes. "SMASH" stars CMU alumni Christian Borle, Megan Hilty and Leslie Odom, Jr. Alumni John Shaffner and Joe Stewart are production designers for "The Big Bang Theory."
Ironically, when Josh Gad (A'03) auditioned for CMU's School of Drama, he checked his acting ambitions at the door. "He thought maybe we'd accept him as a director, but not an actor," recalls CMU professor Don Wadsworth. Gad was wrong.
After being affiliated with the Master of Product Design throughout the program's ten-year history at CMU, the Tepper School of Business has officially joined as a third partner in offering the interdisciplinary degree.
