Alan Harlam was the Founding Director of Brown’s Social Innovation Initiative (SII) at Brown’s Swearer Center. Over the past decade, Alan has supported dozens of entrepreneurs through all stages of their startup journey with a special focus on ventures designed to address social problems. These ventures are currently impacting 10’s of thousands of people in […]
New Economy’s mission is to unleash the full potential of the entrepreneur! New Economy is the accounting, finance and tax partner to startups, emerging growth companies and small business entrepreneurs. They are passionate about entrepreneurs and small business owners because they are risk takers, dreamers and folks with guts!! Jeff is available to talk about […]
Norman Atkins is the Co-Founder and President of Relay GSE, a path-breaking institution of higher education that trains more than 1,400 public school teachers and principals across the nation. Atkins is also the Founder, Board Chair, and former CEO of Uncommon Schools, one of the nation’s highest-performing nonprofit charter management organizations with 44 schools serving […]
Join us for a discussion featuring Brown alumni who are taking a lead in supporting Brown alumni founders. Speakers will include Lauren Kolodny ‘08, partner at Aspect Ventures, Charlie Kroll ‘01, co-founder of Andera and more recently Ellevest and Ludwig Pierre Schulze ‘96, Managing Partner at Waterman Ventures. Learn more about their personal journeys from […]
Join the ADOCH team and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship to learn how you can put your entrepreneurial drive to work at Brown. A panel will generate discussion about how and why entrepreneurship at Brown focuses on collaboration with every part of the Brown ecosystem and beyond. RSVP here. Faculty/Staff Moderator: Danny Warshay, Executive Director […]
Since 2009, BEO has administered grants to Brown graduate students through the Hazeltine Fellowship for entrepreneurship research by graduate students who are either collaborating with faculty or under the guidance of a faculty member. The Hazeltine Fellowship may fund dissertation-related research or provide seed funds for initiating a new topic of research with a faculty […]
Alan Harlam is the Founding Director of Brown’s Social Innovation Initiative (SII) at Brown’s Swearer Center. Over the past decade, Alan has supported dozens of entrepreneurs through all stages of their startup journey with a special focus on ventures designed to address social problems. These ventures are currently impacting 10’s of thousands of people in […]
In 2009 David Ebersman joined Facebook as the company's CFO, where he oversaw the initial public offering of stock on May 18, 2012. Constantly surrounded by all this startup energy inspired him. In 2014, David wanted to start something of his own. He wanted to solve a problem that not only affected him but millions […]
Join us for a discussion with Brown alumni from the class of ‘87, Mike Baker, Steve Glenn, Bart Wolman -- who span a variety of industries from sustainability, technology, to big data. In between their careers they found entrepreneurship as a pathway towards disruption and solving problems in their respective sectors. These mostly lifelong entrepreneurs […]
Multiple team members from all levels at Bessemer Venture Partners will share a presentation on the role, the firm, and the startup ecosystem and will then will open it up to Q&A. Remember, there's no "typical" background for a VC at BVP. We have startup founders, debate champions, varsity rowers, film screenwriters, triathlon athletes, singers, […]
