Mentors do matter
Take just a minute and ask yourself: Who’s the person who has played the most influential role in your career? Chances are it was someone... Read More
Athleon: the team that keeps on pitching
When Brent Lamphier and the Athleon team pitched at the Investment Round of the 2008 Business Plan Competition, there was a collective moment of surprise... Read More
VholdR – market leader in HD wearable camcorders
When avid skiers Marc Barros and Jason Green were entrepreneurship undergraduates at the University of Washington, they tried to share videos of the thrills and... Read More
Center funds $35,000 in clean-tech prototype development
“We have funding available.” Those are four words that are bound to attract student attention. For the University of Washington’s Environmental Innovation Challenge, student teams... Read More
Symposium explores new research in technology entrepreneurship
Now in its seventh year, the West Coast Research Symposium and Doctoral Consortium in Technology Entrepreneurship draws faculty and doctoral students from around the globe... Read More
Undergrad field trip to Seattle start-up
By guest blogger Dmitry Muzechuk, UW sophomore I joined the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program as a freshman (the program is geared for freshmen interested in entrepreneurship). I’m also a student... Read More
Lacing together the business of NanoString
CIE proves the gateway to a winning business plan Amber Ratcliffe (MBA 2003)—Seattle entrepreneur—arrived at the Foster School’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) with... Read More
It’s in the cards
Who doesn’t remember Topps baseball trading cards? The Foster School of Business has applied the same concept to its “all-star” faculty, “rookie” new hires, “skipper”... Read More
Congratulations to the 2009 Business Plan Competition winners!
We had a record 90 student teams apply to the competition by sending us their 5 to 7 page executive summaries. Eighty-one judges screened that... Read More
Water consumption tracker wins UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
HydroSense, a team of seven students from across the University of Washington, won first place and $10,000 in the inaugural UW Environmental Innovation Challenge on... Read More