‘The best thing I did in college’ – Competition Season Begins!
An engineer, two biochemists, and a finance major walk into a room. It’s not a bad joke leading to an even worse punchline. That is... Read More
Resource Night Recap: Startup Company Planning
Each week you can read a recap of the previous class session from the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy Sallin. If you have questions about... Read More
Foster Launches New 12-month Master of Science in Entrepreneurship
It’s a constant refrain in entrepreneurship classes: What’s the customer pain you’re trying to solve? “It’s not a random question,” says Connie Bourassa-Shaw, director of the... 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
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
My Summer Trip in San Francisco (as a TripIt MBA intern)
Today we have a superb guest blogger: Anika Gupta (Class of 2016)! Anika had the opportunity to spend the summer at TripIt as a Senior... 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