���Dropping in��� Leads to $40 Million Payoff
Photo: Douglas Levere
Eric Reich and Michael Weisman
s graduate students in the UB School of
Management a dozen years ago, Eric
Reich and Michael Weisman weren���t shy
about soliciting advice on how to start a business. Just ask Joe Salamone, an associate professor of organization and human resources
who specialized in entrepreneurship.
���They would stop by my office to talk.
These weren���t five-minute meetings; they
were long. They usually ended because I had
to teach a class or they had a class to go to,���
Salamone, who retired last year, recalled with
a laugh.
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6 Buffalo Business Spring 2013
It wasn���t just Salamone. Reich and
Weisman were routinely engaged with many
other faculty and administrators, including
late UB president William Greiner, to discuss
their vision. Through their efforts, buoyed by
winning a coveted entrepreneurship award
from UB, they formed Campus Labs, a technology company based in downtown
Buffalo.
Their success stems from years of hard
work, persistence and ingenuity; a ripe market in Western New York for entrepreneurs;
and, of course, their UB experience.
