He and Hansen knew tutors helped with academic success, but realized it wasnt always easy to find one.
Through research they learned the near peer concept was successful.
They decided what they wanted their app to offer and researched what it would take to create it.
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Hes also a co-founder and now Chief Technology Officer at Knack.
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We intentionally put our team together to have engineers, Qureshi said.
Paying an outside company to build the app would have easily cost six figures.
There are hundreds of University Business Incubators (UBIs) across the country at schools of all sizes.
Some offer grants or stipends to help support students financially while they create their business or product.
Others have relationships with banks that provide special loans to entrepreneurs.
Most UBIs are adept at creating networking opportunities for students to gain access to potential funders, often alumni.
They also have media relations teams that get publicity for students and their endeavors.
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UBIs keep students informed about competitions and grant applications.
In 2016, Knack won first place and $25,000 cash in UFs Big Idea Business Plan Competition.
That led to more interest from investors.
A few family members wanted to invest in the company to help it get off the ground.
The Knack co-founders sold them shares in the business in exchange for equity.
They priced their stock by comparing their company to the market value of similar existing startups.
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We were pretty naive and that gave us some pause.
I was a pre-law student so I didnt have any business experience.
The majority of our team did not study business, he said.
We learned a lot from mentors.
We were srappy, scraping up dollars where we could.
(Can you sense my millennial sarcasm there?)
You know which ones were talking about: rent, utilities, cell phone bill, insurance, groceries…
