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Building Ventures from Scratch

Projects founding and building companies, products, and platforms from zero to market.

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Preview for Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) — Student Business Incubator
▶Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) — Student Business Incubator

Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) — Student Business Incubator

Before accelerators were a category, IDC was a student-run LLC that engaged over 100 students from Missouri S&T to evaluate thousands of business ideas, build...

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Preview for Investor Relations
◆Investor Relations

Investor Relations

Investor Relations is the management of communication between a company and its investors.

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Preview for Lumate
◇Lumate

Lumate

An adtech and real-time media trading venture built around algorithmic advertising systems and market-making infrastructure.

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▶Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform

Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform

As co-founder, led a 10-engineer team to build a demand-side and supply-side platform that operated as a real-time market-maker in programmatic advertising —...

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◎Marketplace systems

Marketplace systems

Platforms match supply and demand participants while enforcing rules, pricing, and trust mechanisms that enable transactions.

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Preview for Missouri S&T Design Engineering Lab
◇Missouri S&T Design Engineering Lab

Missouri S&T Design Engineering Lab

A university engineering environment that reinforced prototyping, applied design, and hands-on system building.

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Preview for Missouri S&T Power Systems Engineering Lab
◇Missouri S&T Power Systems Engineering Lab

Missouri S&T Power Systems Engineering Lab

A power-systems engineering context that strengthened applied technical judgment under real-world operating constraints.

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Preview for Multi-Entity / Multi-Venture Systems
◎Multi-Entity / Multi-Venture Systems

Multi-Entity / Multi-Venture Systems

Structures operate multiple companies or projects in parallel with shared tooling, financial systems, and knowledge infrastructure.

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Preview for Numismatic Guarantee Corporation
◇Numismatic Guarantee Corporation

Numismatic Guarantee Corporation

A trust-heavy coin-grading context connected to numismatics, reputation, and market signaling.

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Preview for Osmose
◇Osmose

Osmose

A utility-infrastructure company where geospatial risk modeling and data engineering were applied to physical-world asset prioritization.

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