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Cynthia Franklin, director of Entrepreneurship at the W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs and Allie Esslinger (MBA '18), a finalist in the 2017 New Venture Competition, are quoted in a trend story about support for entrepreneurship in business schools

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Excerpt from TopMBA -- "'The entrepreneurship process has been demystified. Never before has there been such broad and easy access to the critical resources needed to start a venture—whether technology, capital—both cash and human, support networks, know-how, etc.,' says Franklin. . ... 'the founding team [of LGBTQueue, co-founded by Allie Esslinger (MBA '18)] is excited to have the benefit of having come together under a different umbrella, use those metrics to guide our first decisions about product and branding, and work together more collaboratively to build something from the ground up.'"

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