Alumnus is Pirq-ing up the daily deals market
Maybe James Sun was never the hiring type. More of a job creator, the 1999 BA graduate of the University of Washington Foster School of... Read More
Top 5 tips for succeeding in a business plan competition
Guest post by Chris Rodde, CEO of SeniorHomes.com and 2012 UW Business Plan Competition judge In April of 2012, I participated as a judge in... Read More
2012 Business Plan Competition innovations inspire
Business plan competitions are never just isolated, one-off events. Instead, not only do they help advance the participant innovations along their entrepreneurial paths, but such... Read More
Clean-technology winners awarded $22,500 in 2012
If our future will be driven by clean-tech innovation, universities are the laboratories for a green economy. University of Washington engineering and business teams won... Read More
$34,000 for best social entrepreneur ideas of 2012
What do bee farmers, deaf people, jewelry artists, mature women and cataract sufferers have in common? Their lives will be improved by budding social entrepreneurs... Read More
Social entrepreneur people and investor choice winners 2012
Who won the 2012 University of Washington Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition trade show prizes of people’s choice and investors’ choice awards? Take a look at... Read More
Impel’s POD device helps drugs jump the blood-brain barrier
It sounds like science fiction: a device that delivers pharmaceutical drugs directly to the brain using something called “nose-to-brain” transport. But this is no sci-fi... Read More
University of Washington celebrates state’s top minority businesses
The Business and Economic Development Center at the University of Washington Foster School of Business honored seven outstanding minority-owned companies from around the state at... Read More
Making a successful Korea change
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For the founders of YongoPal, a 6,000 mile step resulted in a dramatic shift... Read More
Go tech, young man
“If at first you don’t succeed…” is a mantra for many Business Plan Competition winners who learn their lessons and emerge with laurels at a... Read More