WCRS: improving entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education is in demand. In fact, it’s one of the fastest growing subjects on today’s college campuses. According to a 2013 paper published by... Read More
Innovation takes flight as Alaska Airlines sponsors environmental entrepreneurship competition at University of Washington
Today, the University of Washington Foster School of Business announced Alaska Airlines as the naming sponsor of its annual Environmental Innovation Challenge. In the Environmental... Read More
Meet the 8 student-led startups in the 2014 Jones + Foster Accelerator
There’s a popular quote from Alltop co-founder and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki: “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” Ask any entrepreneur and they’ll agree. Producing prototypes,... Read More
Lessons for student entrepreneurs
As a student at Seattle Pacific University, Dan Price won second place in the 2007 UW Business Plan Competition for Gravity Payments. This year he... Read More
$70,000 awarded to student-led startups
“This is the best night of the year,” said Craig Sherman, partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as he took the stage at the... Read More
The decider
Mike Fridgen turns Big Data into sound advice to consumers What can Big Data do for you? In the raw, it’s overwhelming, driving us to... Read More
Seattle meets Saudi
Lateefa Alwaalan wants to bring Arabic coffee to a global market Coffee and start-ups might seem more Seattle than Saudi Arabia, but not to Lateefa... Read More
2014 UW Business Plan Competition announces Sweet 16
36 student-led startups from colleges and universities across Washington state gathered at the University of Washington today to compete in the Investment Round of the... Read More
$27,500 Awarded to Entrepreneurial Student Innovators
The annual UW Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), now in its sixth year, challenges interdisciplinary student teams to define an environmental problem, develop a solution, produce... Read More
The 2014 UW EIC challenges student innovators to think like entrepreneurs
The U.S. Department of Energy recently held its fifth Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit—an annual event that brings together academics, entrepreneurs, innovators, and... Read More