{"id":27564,"date":"2024-03-21T20:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/?page_id=27564"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:25:22","slug":"auggiecup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/auggiecup\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2024\/03\/Copy-of-Proofs-13of30-768x513-1-e1711053999505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup creates innovative business opportunities for Augsburg students while positively impacting the Twin Cities\u2019 entrepreneurial community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The objective of the Auggie Cup is to accelerate the development of Augsburg students to achieve future entrepreneurial success through core curriculum, collaboration between undergraduate and MBA students, incubator experiential learning and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exposure to local business leaders through the Innovation Speaker Series<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student teams comprised of one MBA student, two undergraduate business majors, and two graphic design majors, spend the fall semester developing an entrepreneurial business venture that culminates in a final presentation at the Auggie Cup in December. A panel of judges, including members of the Business Advisory Council, Augsburg faculty, and potentially the major sponsor, select the top three teams. Winning teams earn up to $30,000 in prize money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8B1qqBNkkOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>2025 Augsburg entrepreneur cup<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27655\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27655 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Student members of the first place Auggie Cup Team, representing Navatar Health.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/12\/WinningTeam-5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First place winners of the 3rd Annual Auggie Cup, Team Navatar! From left to right, Ryan Harvey &#8217;26, Jacob Henry &#8217;26, Alanna Franklin &#8217;25, David Perdue, Founder\/Principal of Navatar Health, Bri Mccutchan &#8217;25, Jacqueline Zimmerman &#8217;26 (MBA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read more here: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2025\/12\/17\/ideas-take-the-stage-at-the-auggie-entrepreneur-cup\/\">Ideas take the stage at the Auggie Entrepreneur Cup<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2024 Βι¶ΉΤ­΄΄ ENTREPRENEUR CUP<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/02\/entrepreneurship-students-compete-for-cash-prizes-in-auggie-cup\/\">2024 Auggie Cup results! <\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2023 Augsburg entrepreneur cup<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/2024\/02\/02\/augsburgs-inaugural-auggie-entrepreneurship-cup-a-success\/\">See the results of the Auggie entrepreneurs in action!<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom \u201972 and Karen Howe<\/li>\n<li>Mike Nathan and Sara Armstrong<\/li>\n<li>Big Stone Capital Group<\/li>\n<li>Modulate Capital<\/li>\n<li>Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Blaze Credit Union<\/li>\n<li>Bill Urseth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x48;&#117;rl&#x65;&#x79;&#99;&#64;a&#x75;&#x67;&#x73;&#98;ur&#x67;&#x2e;&#101;&#100;u\">Catherine Hurley<\/a> for event sponsorship opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup creates innovative business opportunities for Augsburg students while positively impacting the Twin Cities\u2019 entrepreneurial community. The objective of the Auggie Cup is to accelerate the development of Augsburg students to achieve future entrepreneurial success through core curriculum, collaboration between undergraduate and MBA students, incubator experiential learning and exposure to local business &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27564","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27564"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27654,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27564\/revisions\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}