In recent times, the venture capital industry has come under scrutiny for allowing the rise of questionable firms characterized by poor corporate governance including ineffective boards, poor oversight, weak controls, and conflicts of interest. At the same time, an increasing number of investors are engaging in responsible governance practices aimed at strengthening the bottom line […]
Looking for a little startup legal help? Sign up to speak with a lawyer from Howell Legal. Howell Legal provides strategic legal counsel to founders on formation issues and to established operators on funding growth, incentivizing a team, selling products and services, and acquisitions, all with a long view toward the success of the business. You don't want […]
Design is always already everywhere. The built environment, our material culture, and the systems and infrastructures of our modern world are so ubiquitous, and yet so inconspicuous, that design establishes the fundamental conditions of possibility for mutual benefit and cooperation, as well as for conflict and competition. Positive Sum Design is an emerging discourse that begins with a […]
Brown EP is excited to host Josh Silverman ’91 for an in-person fireside chat this Thursday, March 2nd. Josh is the Chief Executive Officer of Etsy, leading the company as it builds a platform that empowers creative entrepreneurs around the world. This event will take place from 7-8 PM at the Liz Lange Lecture Hall, […]
This brown bag lunch series will feature conversations on diverse topics in entrepreneurship by faculty and students. It'll be a forum to showcase emerging research, published work, and policy conversations related to entrepreneurship. The Customer Cancellation Gap: The Drivers of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in On-Demand Work Research has only recently highlighted the role of precarity as […]
Join us on March 3, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm ET to learn what students who traveled to Tokyo and Kyoto to meet with Brown alumni, founders, investors and Japanese policy makers learned about the ways Japan supports entrepreneurship. This is one of the many ways the Nelson Center engages with a global community […]
Looking for a little startup legal help? Sign up to speak with a lawyer from Howell Legal. Howell Legal provides strategic legal counsel to founders on formation issues and to established operators on funding growth, incentivizing a team, selling products and services, and acquisitions, all with a long view toward the success of the business. You don't want […]
What is the Future of Sustainable Investing (FSI)? FSIcon aims to be the largest, most impactful, most well known conference on sustainable investing in the United States. This one-day event will bring thought leaders, practitioners, policymakers, students, and others, into a collaborative, intrinsically interdisciplinary environment to debate and discuss the role of investing in shaping […]
Join us on Thursday, March 16 from 7 - 8:30 pm ET for the annual Brown Venture Prize Pitch Night, and watch Brown's most advanced ventures pitch their ideas for a chance to win $50k in prizes! The Brown Venture Prize supports teams who have identified a significant opportunity, and whose ventures have the potential to create “impact […]
