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Resource Night Recap: Real Problems and Viable Solutions
The BPC Practicum class attended the Science and Technology Showcase to network and join teams Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. This week instructor John Zagula of Ignition...
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Student Innovation on Display at Science and Technology Showcase
Seven student teams took home prizes at the 11th Annual Science and Technology Showcase (STS) co-hosted by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and the student-run Science and Engineering Business...
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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 the startup lecture series, Buerk Center competitions...
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‘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 how college students form teams across the state of Washington to...
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Resource Night Recap: Examining Business Strategy
Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. This week instructor John Zagula of Ignition Capital steps in for the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy Sallin to recap a class focused on...
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Resource Night Recap: Financing Early-Stage Ventures
Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. This week, the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy Sallin recaps a class focused on financing early-stage ventures. If you have questions...
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Resource Night Recap: Managing Time, People, and Structure
Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. This week, the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy Sallin recaps a class focused on managing people, time, and structure with early-stage...
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Resource Night Recap: Marketing Gurus Hold Court
Panel of marketing experts: John O’Rourke (Indix), Betsy Sperry (One Degree Brand Chemistry), Zach Hunnting (Crown Social Agency), and BreeAnna Marchitto (Dry Soda) Each week you can read a recap of...
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$32,000 Awarded at Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
This time the judges didn’t just like them, they really, really liked them. EpiForAll took home the $15,000 Hollomon Family grand prize at the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge hosted by the Foster...
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Student Startups Find Jones + Foster Accelerator Success
Call it graduation day, of sorts. Only instead of a cap, gown, and diploma, seven student-led startups capped off months of hard work by completing the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the Foster School’s...
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Resource Night Recap: Pitches Highlight Penultimate Session
Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. This week, instructor John Zagula, founder of Ignition Capital, steps in for the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy Sallin to recap the...
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Final Resource Night Recap: Business Concepts
Each week you can read a recap of the previous session. For the final week, instructor John Zagula, founder of Ignition Capital, once again stepped in for the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s Amy...
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Student Teams Awarded $38,000 for Environmental Innovations
On a day where being green meant everything, it was a student team highlighting the orange glow of the sun that won the spotlight. Nova Solar Glazing was awarded the $15,000 Wells Fargo grand prize at...
View ArticleFoster’s Buerk Center translates students’ innovation into start-ups
How do you ensure that the right conditions are in place to help students convert their passion and innovation into a bona fide business? For the Buerk Center of Entrepreneurship, it’s a comprehensive...
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Student Finalists Selected for 2017 UW Business Plan Competition
Eighty-two student teams from 12 colleges and universities took their first big step into entrepreneurship and entered their ideas into the UW Business Plan Competition hosted by the Foster School’s...
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Sweet 16 Chosen for 2017 UW Business Plan Competition
AbiliTrek was among the top 16 teams chosen to advance to the next round. Proving your business idea can make it in the real world is tough enough for most experienced entrepreneurs. That is why the...
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Photo Diary: Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Show, don’t tell. It’s the mantra of the 21st Century Marketer. It’s also a great way to share student entrepreneurship in action. Please enjoy this photo diary from the Hollomon Health Innovation...
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Football to Franchises: A Student Entrepreneurship Story
The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship proudly celebrates achievements in the world of student entrepreneurship beyond our competitions and programs like Lavin Entrepreneurship Program, the...
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Pitchapalooza: Seen and heard at the UW Business Plan Competition Investment...
The Investment Round of the annual University of Washington Business Plan Competition is like opening day of the baseball season. Anything seems possible for the 36 student teams pitching feverish woo...
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UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship Welcomes New Director
Rob Adams James Jiambalvo, Dean of the Foster School of Business, announced on Friday that Rob Adams, a Seattle angel investor, startup mentor, and former Cisco acquisitions manager, is slated to...
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