Celebrate with us! Join graduating seniors, their family members and guests, alumni and friends of the center to celebrate and reconnect. Drinks and hors-d'oeuvres served. RSVP HERE
Do you make spending choices based on sustainability and climate change? Do you support local businesses? Do you buy ethically sourced products? Do you support fair wages and treatment? As a consumer your purchases have huge implications on the world around you. Did you realize that the same is true of your savings? Are you being as […]
Consciously or not, we’re creating data in everything we do. With the proliferation of sensors and connected devices, our presence in a room, our latitude and longitude, and our constant click streams become raw material for new business models. Join us on June 28th for a panel discussion about how entrepreneurs are building data-centric companies […]
The Slater Technology Fund and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship invite you to a special Summer Sushi networking event to celebrate the latest graduates of Brown University’s venture accelerator, the Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab). Join us for a fun- and fish-filled event with a mix of technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs. You’ll meet the young B-Lab entrepreneurs from Brown and […]
In this fireside chat, Steve Blank, Father of Modern Entrepreneurship, will explain how and why the Customer Development methodology he created works, and tell how successful founders use it to ensure they have a product or service that people actually want. Steve will tell how to: • find out customers' pain points • validate that […]
Brown students have long pursued ambitious solutions to challenging problems. The excitement that infuses all of this activity is one of collaboration, critical problem solving, and a commitment to interdisciplinary and creative thinking. Join Danny Warshay ‘87, Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Peer Entrepreneurs in Residence (PEIRs) for a panel on […]
Bill Janeway will be discussing his latest book: "Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." In this fully revised and updated edition, Janeway interweaves his professional experience with political and financial history, giving a lively explanation of how successive technological revolutions have transformed the market economy, and revealing why America may yield leadership of the innovation […]
Jessica Kim is the co-founder of ianacare, a virtual care team for caregivers. This new venture was sparked by her experience being a full-time caregiver for her mom battling cancer. At the age of 19, she started Jessica’s Wonders, a baked goods company, out of her college dorm room. She raised $1M in funding her senior […]
We cannot predict the future, but we can create it. Meet students from the Brown Entrepreneurship Program (EP) and the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship center staff, along with other student groups that support entrepreneurship and innovation on campus! Learn about resources, organizations, conferences from both RISD and Brown. RSVP Here!
Design informs our interaction with technology, the construction of cities, the aesthetics of a restaurant, the functionality of automobiles, and the processes by which businesses operate. Design permeates all industries and impacts our global ecosystem and everyday lives. Over the years diverse approaches such as participatory, user-centered and transgenerational design have attempted to incorporate inclusive […]
