Meet the 8 student-led startups in the 2014 Jones + Foster Accelerator
There’s a popular quote from Alltop co-founder and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki: “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” Ask any entrepreneur and they’ll agree. Producing prototypes,... Read More
Lessons for student entrepreneurs
As a student at Seattle Pacific University, Dan Price won second place in the 2007 UW Business Plan Competition for Gravity Payments. This year he... Read More
$70,000 awarded to student-led startups
“This is the best night of the year,” said Craig Sherman, partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as he took the stage at the... Read More
Seattle meets Saudi
Lateefa Alwaalan wants to bring Arabic coffee to a global market Coffee and start-ups might seem more Seattle than Saudi Arabia, but not to Lateefa... Read More
2014 UW Business Plan Competition announces Sweet 16
36 student-led startups from colleges and universities across Washington state gathered at the University of Washington today to compete in the Investment Round of the... Read More
$120,000 awarded to student-led startups
The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Jones + Foster Accelerator is a TechStars-like program that helps student-led startups get off the ground. This year, five teams... 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
The who, what, why, and Howe of Impact HUB Seattle
Impact HUB Seattle makes a great first impression. It has that industrial chic thing down to a T: exposed brick, grand staircase, rustic wooden beams.... Read More
$68,220 awarded to UW Business Plan Competition winners
May 23, 2013 – Seattle’s Bell Harbor buzzed with energy as a record $68,220 in seed funding was awarded to winners of the 2013 UW... Read More
Disruption, power and weak ties: All in a Day of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Day of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which took place on April 26, 2013, offered an impressive array of speakers. The all-day conference was led by... Read More