Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Founders include some Brown University engineering students and and a computer science major at the University of Rhode Island. BTW, we recently posted on the upcoming 2011 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition (which will award nearly $200,000 to start ups in Rhode Island.).
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I have two sisters who are both math majors, so my dad, who was an electrical engineer, was thrilled with the fact that they wanted to major in that. I have friends that have done similar things and we also have some local distilleries that are popping up in Rhode Island. … It’s all the rage now. They make whiskey.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. More than 200,000 startups have already used the platform to connect with 45,000 investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 20, 2013
As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months.
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2012
63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.
Reid Hoffman
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Our engineering team estimated that it would take us a month to build this feature. A hack that takes a tenth of the time may be more useful than an elegantly engineered solution. Engineers hate doing throwaway work. We were presented with a difficult choice?—?delay
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. But Joe and me were designers from Rhode Island School of Design. So we were two-thirds design, one-third engineering when we started. So that’s the headline.
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