Join us for a special Founder Fridays featuring our B-Lab Alum! Brown University’s Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) is an intensive 8-week accelerator program designed to support student entrepreneurs developing high-impact ventures. Each participating team receives access to custom mentoring, a peer cohort of dedicated founders, co-working space, and a summer stipend. For teams that require it, […]

Learn how the brain’s default programming gets in the way of your success and how to hack it so that you can play a bigger game in business and life. After 15 years working in the field of psychotherapy, Steve McCready (’92, American Civilization) now helps people make a bigger impact with their business by […]

How did two Brown alum co-founders reinvent an industry around sleep? Join the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and co-founders Neil Parikh '11 and Luke Sherwin '12 of Casper, a mattress company that found an unmet need in a $14 billion industry, ready for disruption. Neil who attended one year of medical school and whose father […]

Join the Food Studies at Brown Speaker Series, featuring Sean Sherman, founder/CEO of the company The Sioux Chef. He will describe his decade-long entrepreneurial endeavor, to revive precontact Indigenous cuisine, create a Native foods restaurant and food truck, and publish his first cookbook, all while training the next generation of Native chefs. Sean will be […]

Are you thinking about starting a venture or currently running a startup? Join us and Howard Anderson, who has been on the Senior Faculty at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Business School and founder of the Yankee Group and Battery Ventures, for a workshop that provides guidance when a young company gets into trouble. For […]

After Howard's lecture on "Trouble's Ahead", sign up for his office hours to talk about entrepreneurship, growing your company, or ideation. Sign up for a slot here!

Come talk trash with Brown EP as we invite some of the most interesting startups in the garbage business to discuss their entrepreneurial experiences. Learn how these companies take our waste and turn it into something good. Our panelists will share their experiences as sustainable entrepreneurs and discuss the ongoing waste crisis of today.  Join […]

Join us for our Founder Friday's series featuring Charlie Kroll '01, who started his entrepreneurial journey right in his dorm room at Brown University. After graduating in 2001 with a concentration in Economics, and with the help of mentors like Barrett Hazeltine and Stephen Siegel ScM '83, PhD '85, Charlie started Andera, a venture-backed tech […]

Join current VFA Fellows to learn about working at a startup and life as a VFA Fellow! Panelists will provide an overview of the fellowship, their personal experiences, and answer questions. REGISTER HERE. Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates interested in entrepreneurship and working in a fast-paced, innovative startup […]