What is The Lavin Program?
Interested in Entrepreneurship? The Lavin Program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business delivers a unique curriculum + hands-on learning for undergraduate students... Read More
A look inside the TMMBA Venture Capital Investment Competition
Sara Jones, TMMBA Assistant Director & Class of 2012 This past spring our graduating students wrapped up their TMMBA experience with a new course in... Read More
Don’t wait for the right moment
By Marcelo Alcantara, TMMBA Class of 2013 Earlier this year I decided to leave my job and start a new venture. It wasn’t an easy... Read More
Emer Dooley TEDx video: entrepreneurship education – an oxymoron?
University of Washington Foster School of Business lecturer and alumna Emer Dooley (MBA 1992, PhD 2000) recently gave a TEDx lecture on entrepreneurship. Her topic?... Read More
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber expands support for multicultural and small businesses
Guest post by Rita Brogan, CEO of PRR The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce has expanded its support for small and minority-owned businesses with a... Read More
Is it possible? Accelerating student start-ups
In Seattle, where start-ups are part of the local DNA, there are high-profile organizations that take early-stage companies with traction under their wings. The Alliance... Read More
Standing room only: celebrating “entrepreneurial speed”
Outside the sun set gloriously over Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains. Inside, even the sky couldn’t distract the entrepreneurs, student teams, judges, press and... Read More
Foster entrepreneurs bring “Swagga” to Husky nation
It’s official. Onesies are not just for babies anymore. Undergraduate students at the University of Washington Foster School of Business have invented—and are pre-selling—the “Swagga... Read More
Alumnus is Pirq-ing up the daily deals market
Maybe James Sun was never the hiring type. More of a job creator, the 1999 BA graduate of the University of Washington Foster School of... Read More
Ben Huh: be weird, practice failure, thank the Internet
Guest post by Alex Diaz, vice president of UW American Marketing Association chapter “The best things in life are non-linear.” So said, Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger Network,... Read More