Top 30 Teams Advance in All-Virtual Dempsey Startup Competition
Thirty student teams will showcase creativity, ingenuity, and business and digital savvy at this year’s all-virtual Investment Round of the Dempsey Startup Competition. The 23rd... Read More
Student Teams Engage in Virtual Environmental Innovation Challenge
Student teams redefined the term “showcase” at the all-virtual 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC). The event, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for... Read More
Resource Nights: Giving a Great Pitch
Each week you can read a recap of the previous Entrepreneurship Resource Nights (Business Plan Practicum) session. This past week, instructor John Zagula (founder, Ignition Capital) led a class focused on giving... Read More
$48,500 Awarded to Students at 2020 Health Innovation Challenge
The student teams at the 2020 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) impressed the final round judges enough for many to call it the “best competition yet.” ApnoMed... Read More
2020 Finalists for Virtual Environmental Innovation Challenge
College students from across the Pacific Northwest stand ready to tackle some of the largest environmental problems facing the world today. Judges selected 23 finalist... Read More
Resource Nights: Positioning and Messaging
Each week you can read a recap of the previous Entrepreneurship Resource Nights (Business Plan Practicum) session. This past week, instructor John Zagula (founder, Ignition Capital) led a class focused on... Read More
Health Innovation Challenge Finalists Selected From Record Pool
The fifth annual Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) at the University of Washington kicked off bigger than ever! During the Screening Round, 85 judges reviewed... Read More
Funding Awards Announced for Jones + Foster Accelerator
Seven student-created startups will receive funding from the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the UW Foster School of Business. The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship program... Read More
Once an Entrepreneur, Always an Entrepreneur: How Master of Science in Entrepreneurship Alum Andrew Jung came to Found DuJour and GrillMe
Andrew Jung is the Co-Founder of the on-demand turned full-time hiring restaurant labor platform DuJour. An alumnus (’19) of the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship... Read More
Angel Investment Group Honors Former Buerk Center Director
A pioneering force for student entrepreneurship at the University of Washington grabbed a share of the spotlight at the 2019 Angel Capital Expo hosted by... Read More