One of my favorite classes at CU has been Projects in Entrepreneurial Companies taught by Sharon Matusik. In the class, students are paired with a local startup to complete a small project and understand the entrepreneurial process more fully. I worked with Ubooly doing some research and building a node.js dashboard. It was a ton Read More >>
Recently, I signed up for CofounderLabs.com because I’m looking to join a startup. It has been about 4 weeks, and although I haven’t found a startup yet, I have had a lot of people reach out from all over the country. It surprises me, although it shouldn’t, how many people ask me to sign an NDA before Read More >>
I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a paper on the best practices of entrepreneurial education, analyzing CU’s program, and providing recommendations. I’ve enjoyed every minute of the research, probably because entrepreneurship is more than a hobby for me, it’s an obsession. Just now I was populating a matrix that will compare the top 14 entrepreneurial programs in the country. Read More >>
Last year I was invited to pitch HappyFreebie at an angel event organized by Dave Cass, a career connections counselor for MBA students at Leeds. It was a low key event with a couple angel investors in attendance. Let me just point out that not every school has career counselors that organize events for students to Read More >>
Without a long-term mindset, you’re not likely to survive in an entrepreneurial company either as a founder or early employee. I recently heard a great story from a local startup that illustrates this point; for the purpose of anonymity I’ll call them Growth Inc. When Growth Inc. was first created, the founders were open to adding Read More >>
