What if you applied a 2500-year-old philosophy of Aristotle’s Classic Virtues to 21st Century business and entrepreneurship? You’re at a Liberal Arts school - you should! What does courage mean in running a business? How do you know when to go for it or pivot or stop? Can you really love your customers? What would […]
Meet Megan Golden '87, co-founder of Mission: Cure, which uses outcome-based financing and impact investing to demonstrate a new model for curing disease, beginning with chronic pancreatitis, a devastating disease afflicting her younger brother, class of '90. Megan is a leader in innovative, outcome-based financing to solve social problems in the U.S. Until March 2017, […]
Celebrate the Fall 2017 Cohort! The Innovation Dojo is a semester-long student-led initiative designed to challenge underclassmen at Brown and RISD to think differently about innovation and entrepreneurship. Learn more at http://brownentrepreneurship.com/dojo/. Powered By The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship
Interested in learning more about startups? From January 21 - 23, travel to New York City with thirty fellow Brown and RISD students to visit the greatest startup ecosystem on the East Coast. Engage one-on-one with leading innovators, inventors, and investors and tour the headquarters of renowned firms such as Ellevest, MongoDB, and BuzzFeed. Explore the entrepreneurial community home […]
SPEAKER Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University Associate Professor of Management, UMass Boston Paolo Gaudiano, Ph.D. Executive Director, Center for the Quantitative Studies of Diversity and Inclusion City College of New York Founder & CEO, Aleria, a SaaS platform company that enables organizations to plan, execute and measure the impact of D&I initiatives. […]
Come meet David Ronick '89, co-founder of the fintech app Stash Invest. Stash is the fastest-growing mobile investing app. Since October 2015, Stash has helped over 1.5 million young Americans invest. Want to learn how Stash grew and what David is working on next? Join us! Kabob and Curry served. RSVP here.
Join us for venture speed dating! Are you working on a venture or curious about how to get involved with student-run ventures on campus? Come talk to other students who are actively working on or looking to start ventures and find out how you can work together and learn from each other. Cookies will be […]
Join us for a Design+Health workshop in which Professor Danny Warshay will lead a discussion about the most critical skill in entrepreneurship - "bottom-up research" - the first step in the three-step Entrepreneurial Process that he teaches to aspiring entrepreneurs at Brown and all over the world. As opposed to the myth that entrepreneurs are […]
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 $4,000 summer stipend. During this panel, learn about the program and meet the founders of B-Lab alumni ventures, […]
Kris is a partner in the corporate and securities group at Dechert LLP. He focuses on private equity and venture capital financing transactions, as well as M&A. He represents numerous financial and corporate strategic investors as well as several emerging growth companies in the healthcare, life sciences, information technology, software, Internet, consumer electronics, and telecommunications […]