The network effect
How a UW technology becomes a startup and its developer an entrepreneur, with a little help from a lot of friends around the Foster School... Read More
Making shabu “chic”
Kien Ha describes himself as a risk-averse entrepreneur. And given that restaurants are notoriously risky start-ups, Ha went with a concept he knows well –... Read More
Challenges drive environmental innovation
Why are “challenges” so crucial in driving innovation? We asked Connie Bourassa-Shaw, the director of UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship about this, specifically in... Read More
Standing room only: celebrating “entrepreneurial speed”
Outside the sun set gloriously over Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains. Inside, even the sky couldn’t distract the entrepreneurs, student teams, judges, press and... 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
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
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
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