PotaVida purifies water, wins $25K Grand Prize at UW Business Plan Competition
The numbers say it all: 891 teams. $1.08 million in seed funding. 2,768 students from 21 colleges and universities. Those are just a few of... Read More
Economic impact of UW Business Plan Competition
Failure rates for start-ups are notoriously high, and college-aged entrepreneurs face even higher hurdles. At the University of Washington, we’ve been running our Business Plan... Read More
$60,000 for winners of 2011 UW Business Plan Competition
Budding entrepreneurs from universities across the Pacific Northwest created start-ups in clean technology, medical technology, retail, agriculture, software and other areas at the 2011 University... Read More
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
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