WEST LAFAYETTE — Entrepreneurial students may find a home for their businesses and ideas at the Anvil, http://theanvil.us/, which opens Monday (Aug. 26) and is located at 1601 State St. in West Lafayette, Ind.
Founded by student entrepreneurs Mike Asem, co-founder of the startup Tebogo LLC, and Chris MacPherson, co-founder of Kyk Energy Inc., the Anvil contains conference rooms for meetings, networking space and will host space to house student businesses. Asem, who is a liberal arts undergraduate, said the Anvil's mission is to expand Purdue's entrepreneurial community.
“We wanted to create a place that's sole purpose was to help students take actionable steps to take their ideas further and form a community of innovators and visionaries,” Asem said. “The Anvil will provide the resources, amenities, community and infrastructure to help founders and teams take an idea from their dorm room or apartment to an office in the Purdue Research Park, or wherever they want to go.”
