{"id":319,"date":"2009-04-24T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=319"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:07","slug":"akhil-dua-mis-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/04\/akhil-dua-mis-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhil Dua (MIS \u201902)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Akhil Dua<\/strong> <strong>(MIS \u201902)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Healthy Exotic  Foods<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Founder\/CEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While a student, <strong>Akhil Dua<\/strong> (MIS \u201902), co-founder and CEO,  Healthy Exotic Foods, nurtured an inner social entrepreneurial spirit as he  dreamed of one day starting his own business\u2014one that would be dedicated to not  just making money but offering a product that would benefit others. Today that  dream is a reality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[flv:http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2009\/04\/videos\/dua.flv 500 334]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaunched in 2008, my company offers healthy lentil dips produced in an  eco-friendly way,\u201d Dua said. \u201cOur business objective is to create partnerships  with non-profit organizations to combat controllable health issues such as high  cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dua credits the College of Business Administration with giving him valuable  problem-solving tools. He also encourages students to make the most of their  time in business school, both inside and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPick classes according to what interests you, join organizations, and, along  the way, maintain good relationships with peers and professionals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following his own advice, Dua now hopes to market his products to area  schools and colleges, leveraging contacts he made while working with catering  services at Florida International University ten years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akhil Dua (MIS \u201902) Healthy Exotic Foods Founder\/CEO While a student, Akhil Dua (MIS \u201902), co-founder and CEO, Healthy Exotic Foods, nurtured an inner social entrepreneurial spirit as he dreamed of one day starting his own business\u2014one that would be dedicated to not just making money but offering a product that would benefit others. Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[27],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24076,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}