UW Business Plan Competition: where start-ups begin
For 15 years, new business ventures and innovations have sprouted from ideas to successful start-ups via the University of Washington Business Plan Competition. This economic... Read More
Reaching the milestones of start-up success
When it comes to student start-ups, more seed capital is better than less, motivation is an imperative, but a team of trusted and experienced advisors... Read More
Lights, camera, entrepreneurship!
Guest post by Vance Roush, undergraduate student at the UW Foster School of Business A couple years ago, as a sophomore in the UW Foster... Read More
Creating a company one t-shirt at a time
Look around any college campus today and you’ll find something arguably even more prolific than cell phones and iPods. Greek system T-shirts. And if you’re... Read More
Taking aim at energy solutions
In 2008 Brian Pepin and Anthony Simon were running Energizing Solutions, a small industrial efficiency consulting company, while studying electrical engineering at the UW. The... Read More
“Milestone Awards” accelerate student start-ups
Each year, CIE’s marquee Business Plan Competition—and its $65,000 in prize money—sparks the creation of 90+ student business plans. Now a new gift will encourage... Read More
Boomzap’s “Awakening” is a casual gaming hit
Christopher Natsuume has skin in the game. Literally. To raise cash for his nascent casual game company, a semi-finalist team in the 2007 Business Plan... Read More
Giant Campus is virtually everywhere
Pete Findley saw the writing on the wall. Or rather, the pixels on the screen. After spending a decade building Giant Campus from a scrappy... Read More
Brass Media: philanthropy before you’re wealthy
How’s this for brass? Bryan Sims has committed the majority of his future earnings to philanthropy—and he’s just 27. Ambitiously joining an A-list of multi-billionaires... Read More
Congratulations to the 2010 Business Plan Competition Winners!
We had a record 92 student teams from 15 universities apply to participate in the competition. Over 120 judges devoted a full week-end the beginning... Read More