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
Nanocel takes a novel approach to cooling electronics
There are big problems and then there are BIG problems. Cooling electronics, for example. How do you keep large server farms from overheating and how... Read More
NanoString: a big idea turns counting molecules into a thriving business
Amber Ratcliffe was close to graduating with her MBA in 2003 and had accepted a job offer at an established Seattle biotech firm when she... 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
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
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