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Student Experience
Outside of the classroom, launch your own companies and participate in competitions — with the support of your professors and peers.
Launch Your Own Business
Kangle Lin ’23, a business analytics major, is the founder of Gumdrop, a matchmaking app acquired in October 2021 by Vlogmi Corp. Lin said the app is meant to feel "like a college experience" and help users make friends in groups of four to six people. "I always wanted to start something on my own, where I could change the world instead of other people telling me how to change the world." He felt USF was the best place to do that.
![Kangle Lin](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_360x360/public/migrated/article/news/kangle_lin_center.jpg.jpeg?itok=OWgvCowE)
Analyze Data, Win Competitions
At the annual Business Analytics Competition in New York, school of management students work into the night to analyze and derive actionable insights from a large data set. They present their findings to a panel of judges the next morning.
![USF Students Pose with Winning Poster](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_360x360/public/migrated/management/analytics-competition.jpg.jpeg?itok=h4IaX9Vb)
Be An Entrepreneur For Good
A group of school of management students including Anson Tan ’23 — a business analytics and finance double major—donate more than $700 from a class project to the USF Food Pantry.
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