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Prizes Awarded at 2021 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Student teams at the 6th annual Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) set a new standard for virtual competitions in 2021. Judges awarded $41,000 in prizes after seamlessly experiencing a...
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Finalists Ready for 2021 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
The finalists for the 2021 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC) represent a new milestone for the event. The 16 finalist teams (detailed below) will compete at the April 1 challenge...
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Prize Pool Grows for 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition
The Pacific Northwest’s premiere student business plan competition just got even better. The UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship will offer additional prize awards in several...
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Environmental Innovation Challenge 2021 Awards
A new wave of student environmental innovators put on a show at the all-virtual 2021 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. In an incredible showing for the region, students from five of...
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2021 Dempsey Startup Competition Finalists Selected
In a year like no other, the Dempsey Startup Competition made history once again. Students representing 23 different colleges from across the Cascadia Corridor and Alaska kicked off the competition...
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Sweet 16 Chosen in 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition
The most diverse field in Dempsey Startup Competition history is down to just 16 teams following an exciting all-virtual Investment Round. Thirty teams showcased their ideas in virtual meeting rooms...
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Virtual Pitchapalooza
Taking in the sights and sounds of the Dempsey Startup Competition investment round—online VerbalEyes I can’t help missing the buzz. That atomic energy generated by 30+ student startups—from colleges...
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2021 Dempsey Startup Competition Prizes Awarded
When planning for an end, you’ve got to know where to start. Just ask the winners of the $25,000 Herbert B. Jones Foundation Grand Prize at the 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition at the University of...
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Commercialization Fellowship Seeks Product Market Fit
This summer marked a new kind of journey into the possibilities of technology for four University of Washington graduate students. Each were matched with an innovative project (detailed below) as part...
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2021 Jones + Foster Accelerator Cohort Revealed
An incredible opportunity awaits the seven early-stage startups accepted into the 2021 cohort of the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the University of Washington. The teams (detailed below) used grit and...
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UW Entrepreneurship 2022 Rankings from Princeton Review
A focus on empowering student innovators at all levels earned the University of Washington high marks in both graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship offerings by the Princeton Review and...
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Shared Legacy: Insights From a Founding Board Member
Ron Howell (top picture) was among the first board members after the program was launched by Gary Hansen, Neal Dempsey, and Bud Saxberg (bottom left) in 1991 In 1991-92, a group of individuals driven...
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Shared Legacy: The Startup Course Changing Lives
The Foster School’s Creating a Company course launched in the Fall of 1998. In 2001, legendary instructor John Castle (on the right) taught it until he retired in 2013. Alan Leong (pictured bottom left...
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Shared Legacy: Choosing a Life of Entrepreneurship
The Dempsey Startup Competition (formerly UW Business Plan Competition) celebrates its 25th anniversary in April of 2022. MBA co-chairs work behind the scenes and often become entrepreneurs themselves....
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2021 Dempsey Startup Competition Finalists Selected
In a year like no other, the Dempsey Startup Competition made history once again. Students representing 23 different colleges from across the Cascadia Corridor and Alaska kicked off the competition...
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Sweet 16 Chosen in 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition
The most diverse field in Dempsey Startup Competition history is down to just 16 teams following an exciting all-virtual Investment Round. Thirty teams showcased their ideas in virtual meeting rooms...
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Virtual Pitchapalooza
Taking in the sights and sounds of the Dempsey Startup Competition investment round—online VerbalEyes I can’t help missing the buzz. That atomic energy generated by 30+ student startups—from colleges...
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2021 Dempsey Startup Competition Prizes Awarded
When planning for an end, you’ve got to know where to start. Just ask the winners of the $25,000 Herbert B. Jones Foundation Grand Prize at the 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition at the University of...
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Commercialization Fellowship Seeks Product Market Fit
This summer marked a new kind of journey into the possibilities of technology for four University of Washington graduate students. Each were matched with an innovative project (detailed below) as part...
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2021 Jones + Foster Accelerator Cohort Revealed
An incredible opportunity awaits the seven early-stage startups accepted into the 2021 cohort of the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the University of Washington. The teams (detailed below) used grit and...
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