Entrepreneur Fest aims to open doors for students
They say luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. If that’s the case, then the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship wants to make October your... Read More
UW Business Plan Competition makes new ventures a reality
Four student teams take their turns pitching to a panel of seven distinguished Seattle entrepreneurs and an audience of attentive guests. They come with ideas... Read More
Recruiting with a startup twist
The UW Startup Job Fair gets underway with tables labeled with 32 company names you’ve probably never heard of: FlyHomes, AnswerDash, Saltbox. But that’s the... Read More
New Health Innovation Challenge launches
Eighteen teams of excited students clustered together in the University of Washington’s Dempsey Hall. The students put up posters and perfectly curated prototype displays as... Read More
Foster Venture Fellows Co-Founder Hartley Riedner on Networking and Building A Sustainable Program
I wrote earlier about the founding of the Foster Venture Fellows, which was started in 2015 as a professional student organization providing practical venture capital... Read More
The 2015 UW Business Plan Competition: Co-chair perspective
Last year, I had the pleasure of serving as one of the two MBA co-chairs for the Buerk Center of Entrepreneurship’s annual Business Plan/New Venture... Read More
The Venture Capital (VC) Fellowship – How MBA students are connecting Foster MBAs and the Seattle VC community
(May 2016 update: When I originally wrote this article in August 2015, I failed to write about the third co-founder: Hartley Riedner, Class of 2016,... Read More
Kelci Zile – Party Camp Intern
I first heard about the idea of “Party Camp” through Pam Tufts, the previous director of the Foster Lavin Entrepreneurship Program. Party Camp was a... Read More