COB Dividends Show - March 2020


The Dividends Show is a monthly program dedicated to bringing you all the latest news and information from Mississippi State University's College of Business. Each episode will give you an inside look at the College's programs and events, history, faculty, students, and alumni.

In this episode, Dividends Show host Jeffrey Rupp speaks with former College of Business student, Madison Grant. Grant is now the Program Specialist for the E-Center where she guides students who come with interest of starting their own business. Grant also discuss how the E-Center will host its third annual Innovation Challenge, a hands-on opportunity for innovative Oktibbeha County middle & high school students to experience a real-world entrepreneurial process. Participants will compete for a $500 grand prize and scholarships to the MSU iCreate Entrepreneurship Summer Camp. For more information on the Innovation Challenge, visit: https://ecenter.msstate.edu/ideas-2-enterprise-innovation-challenge-announced-for-middle-and-high-school-students/.

We also speak with former College of Business student, Shelby Baldwin. Baldwin is the co-founder of Rocketing Systems, a software developing company that was launched in 2019. Rocketing Systems recently launched their first software as a service (SaaS) product, Buzzbassador. The Buzzbassador software effortlessly integrates a business’s Shopify store to automatically populate ambassadors’ order information, generate unique referral codes for ambassadors, and more. For more information on Buzzbassador, visit: https://buzzbassador.app/.