From local to national design—UW students progress on hybrid car
Guest post by Trevor Crain, UW engineering student and Environmental Innovation Challenge winner The Voltaic team is finishing up its sixth month of participation in... Read More
Does your idea have legs? Assessing your customer & determining your value proposition
Three experienced social entrepreneurs share valuable insights – 3 steps to understand your business, 4 steps for success, and 5 steps to create sustainable ventures... Read More
Video: CEO Dave Roberts on PopCap Games success and luck
To be successful in business, Dave Roberts says you have to be good, smart and lucky. You don’t expect to hear luck invoked as a... Read More
Want to change the world? Where good ideas come from and how they evolve into social enterprises.
Listen to leaders from Lumana, Village Reach and Nsansa as they discuss how they developed their good ideas into ventures that are changing the world!... Read More
McKinstry’s David Allen offers sustainability industry insights
Guest post by Katie Collier, graduate student at UW Foster School of Business and Evans School of Public Affairs This month, McKinstry Executive Vice President David... Read More
How to succeed as a social entrepreneur and change the world in 12 steps
Student teams from universities in 49 countries submitted a record number of applications for the 2012 Global Social Entrepreneur Competition (GSEC). If you were one of... Read More
Video: Michael Potts on a renewable energy future
Michael Potts, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, spoke to a group of University of Washington students in all fields – business, engineering, public affairs... Read More
When entrepreneurship drives community building: Uwajimaya legacy
Guest blog post by Rita Brogan, CEO of PRR Uwajimaya’s beginnings were humble, when in 1928 Fujimatsu Moriguchi started selling fishcakes in Tacoma, Washington. Today, Uwajimaya... Read More
Gravity at the speed of light
At 16, Dan Price’s high school rock band, the Straightforwords, broke up. At 26, he was on a stage in Washington, DC, shaking hands with... Read More
Competition winners and job creation
Since the UW Foster School of Business Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) launched the Business Plan Competition in early 1998, 891 student teams have... Read More