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Couri Hatchery

The Couri Hatchery is a student-centered, low-cost, and supportive business incubator that helps new start-ups get established and develop to the point where they can stand on their own. The Couri Hatchery promotes, stimulates, and supports business development among entrepreneurial students across the SU campus. The Couri Hatchery is named for John Couri '63 BA (A&S), co-founder of Duty Free International and president of the Couri Foundation.

The focus of the Couri Hatchery is to streamline innovative, emerging student ventures. It provides a broad scope of services including cost-effective space and support, prototype production facilities, product realization and development services, and business consultation. The Couri Hatchery provides SU student business owners with real-world experience in business innovation and creation and research and development. The Couri Hatchery stimulates interaction between student entrepreneurs and other SU students, faculty, administrators, and staff. It also offers unique research and development collaborations with local entrepreneurs, capitalizing on their facilities, business management expertise, and technologies to leverage student entrepreneurial success.

Businesses that have ‘hatched’ from the Couri Hatchery include Funk ’n Waffles, Wholesale Jewelry Liquidators, and Brand-Yourself.com.

Application:

You may bring the form to Room 116, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. Please contact the EEE Department at eeeinfo@syr.edu, or call 315-443-6899.

Couri Hatchery application - Word Document (.doc)
Couri Hatchery

Current Student-Run Businesses

Business  Owners  Description
DreamFetcher

Kyle McShane ’11 MS, Gerald Decilian ’11 MS, Austin Curtis ’11 MS,
Engagement Fellows 2011-12		 DreamFetcher is a service that lets technology job seekers find jobs, helps employers find technology talent, and enables technology entrepreneurs to find new team members much more efficiently than traditional job websites. On DreamFetcher, employers and entrepreneurs do not receive applications from unqualified candidates and job seekers do not have to search through pages of job posting sites to find jobs that are in line with their skill sets and job preferences.
InspiRing Evin Robinson '12 BS (A&S, VPA) InspiRing is a jewelry company which sells high quality rings as symbols of female empowerment. Each ring is hand crafted with 14k gold, gold filled wire or sterling silver wire along with a Swarovski crystal or hand blown glass. InspiRing’s slogan - “Empower yourself by InspiRing others” - is about boosting young females’ confidence and understanding of empowerment by serving as role models to others.
James Barrett Co. James Barrett ‘13 BA James Barrett Co. designs, produces and retails original graphic apparel with a positive message. With the current collection the Peace Tee, we have sold over 1,200 shirts to customers from 22 states.
KickFresh Joseph Ottenstein ’12 BS, Mariano di Guglielmo ’12 BA The KickFresh is an inflatable shoe tree for athletic sneakers that will keep a shoe looking new on the outside while absorbing sweat and odor on the inside. The product will fit all forms and shapes of athletic shoes, including trainers, sandshoes, gym boots, joggers, running shoes, sneakers, tennis shoes, high tops, sport shoes and rubber shoes.
Klane Consulting LLC Keegan Slattery ’13 BS, Barnett Klane ’13 BS, Nick Mancini ’13 BS Klane Consulting, LLC is a provider of high quality audio and lighting equipment. The target market consists of fraternities, college houses, and student DJ’s. Klane Consulting sells products through campus representatives that create a personal relationship with the client and work directly with customers to provide equipment that fits their specific budget, venue and other requirements.
Rylaxing Ryan Dickerson ’11 BS, Engagement Fellow 2011-12 The Rylaxer is a series of ergonomic bolsters to maximize comfort and space efficiency in limited space areas such as bedrooms and dorm rooms. The Rylaxer goes on top of any bed, ideally a twin bed, transforming it into a very comfortable and ergonomic couch. The Rylaxer is tough, resilient, environmentally friendly, and compliant to all California and Boston fire codes (completely flame retardant foam and fabric). The Rylaxer also stores very easily and can be effectively stored up on end, taking up only 1.5-square-feet of floor space.