When Paul Anthony Troiano founded a music startup out of his UO dorm room in 1996, he received well-timed support from a former dean of the Lundquist College of Business.

The creator of Rumblefish now has committed more than $300,000 to help the UO establish the RAINMaker Fund with the intent of helping today's student entrepreneurs avoid some of the hurdles that he had to jump. The fund is designed to attract students to engage within the Eugene node of the Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network.

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