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Introducing Henry Wong as a Mentor for the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship
The Master of Science in Entrepreneurship is Foster’s 12-month degree that embodies the startup process — from ideation and formation to execution and scale. It blends the best of business school...
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Science & Technology Showcase Reaches New Heights
CREST’s Alyssa Schul won the $1,000 Premera Grand Prize It’s not often the grand prize entry in a showcase is kept hidden under a sheet. Then again, you wouldn’t take modesty into account at a hospital...
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Resource Nights: Balancing Risk and Opportunity
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...
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Sponsor Spotlight: Cambia Grove & Health Innovation
If something is broken, you fix it. If that something is an imperfect health care system and you are Cambia Grove, you re-define it. Led by Executive Director Maura Little and her staff, the health...
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Resource Nights: Startup Strategy and Approach
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...
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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 awarded $170,000 (up to $25k...
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Resource Nights: Business Models and Money Concepts
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...
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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 a record 51 student entries from...
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Resource Nights: The Reality of Running a Business
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...
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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...
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Finalist Teams Selected for 2020 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 teams (detailed below) to compete...
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$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 won the $15,000 IntuitiveX Grand...
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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...
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Student Startup Spotlight: Kadama Offers a Helping Hand
Being able to trace your startup development year-to-year alongside your progress through school is a rare feat. Then again, the team behind the student startup Kadama is anything but ordinary. Kadama...
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Lavin Program entrepreneur retools wearable device to help fight spread of...
Stop touching your face! That familiar admonition was once aimed almost exclusively at grubby-handed kids. Now it has become a dead-serious public health message for all of humanity as we try to slow...
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Foster alum launches emergency market platform to move critical medical...
Scott Barrows Across the United States, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed an acute lack of preparedness for a fast-growing global pandemic, with critical medical supplies running dangerously low in many...
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Joe Chocolate fans follow founders’ lead, send ‘bits of buzz’ to sustain...
Peter Keckement and Sam Tanner, founders of Joe Chocolate. As the world began adapting to extreme new norms of social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Chocolate Co. owners Sam Tanner (BA...
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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...
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#Pledge1200 campaign urges people to spend stimulus dollars at local small...
Clockwise from top: Dominik Gorecki, Mason Delahooke and Aubrey Macenzie of Pledge 1200. On March 27, President Trump signed an historic $2 trillion stimulus plan to help Americans and American...
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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 year of the new venture...
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