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
$68,000 for winners of UW Business Plan Competition 2012
The 2012 University of Washington Foster School of Business’ Business Plan Competition had a record amount of seed funding and record participation. Winning start-ups are... Read More
Top 5 tips for succeeding in a business plan competition
Guest post by Chris Rodde, CEO of SeniorHomes.com and 2012 UW Business Plan Competition judge In April of 2012, I participated as a judge in... Read More
UW environmental innovation wows judges
Judges were supposed to walk into the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on March 29, pick up their folders and grab a seat. But the 23 prototypes were... Read More
For loyalty’s sake: follow the smartphone
How do you convince coffee shop and pizza parlor owners that it’s time to ditch the paper punch card and move to a digital customer... Read More
Meet your new apartment: you’ll love her
Every entrepreneur learns that the company you envision at the outset almost certainly won’t be the same company you own a year or two later.... Read More
Undergrad learns from losing and winning a competition
Guest post by James Barger, UW engineering senior and UW Environmental Innovation Challenge co-chair, 2012, Grand Prize team member, UW Environmental Innovation Challenge 2011 “It is... Read More
2012 Business Plan Competition innovations inspire
Business plan competitions are never just isolated, one-off events. Instead, not only do they help advance the participant innovations along their entrepreneurial paths, but such... Read More
Clean-technology winners awarded $22,500 in 2012
If our future will be driven by clean-tech innovation, universities are the laboratories for a green economy. University of Washington engineering and business teams won... Read More
Impel’s POD device helps drugs jump the blood-brain barrier
It sounds like science fiction: a device that delivers pharmaceutical drugs directly to the brain using something called “nose-to-brain” transport. But this is no sci-fi... Read More