Integrating Design Thinking into Startup Innovation, with Tracie Wolfmeyer. “8 out of 10 startups will fail.” With this statement, Tracie Wolfmeyer began her talk on how she, and other successful entrepreneurs, have integrated design thinking into their startups to ensure that they ar...
Recently, Sling Health hosted an interactive presentation on common pitfalls and mistakes in startup incorporation and equity. They invited Jordan Elliott to speak on common legal issues and Blake Marggraff to share his journey of starting a successful company. “Nothing is tricky when it’s ...
Stories from Silicon Valley: How to land a Job at a Startup with Doug Galen “What is your story?”, entrepreneur and Stanford University Lecturer Doug Galen rhetorically asks the crowd in the Skandalaris Center. There were mixed reactions from the listeners, who’s academic backgrounds varie...
WUMA (WashU Marketing Association) and the Producers Club Presents: Blake Coppelson Last Tuesday, WashU Marketing Association and Producers Club welcomed Blake Coppelson, the founder of an EDM distributor: Proximity, to Washington University. In the first half of the event, Blake Coppelson talke...
On Thursday, October 18th, David Vinjamuri provided insight on branding and marketing to four WashU venture teams at our inaugural Expert Hours. David Vinjamuri is a consultant on branding and social media, working with corporate brands such as Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson. He curre...
Growing up in Topeka, Kansas, Atima Lui (BSBA ’12) felt that her dark skin tone never quite fit in with the standard of beauty in her community. She is now changing the way women of color see beauty and fashion. Taking her passion for black activism and female empowerment, Lui founded New York Ci...
In early 2018, The Simon Initiative was launched through a generous donation by alumnus Andrew Simon (LA63) and his wife Andrea. The initiative aims to bring women in entrepreneurship to the forefront of conversations in today’s startup world. Some of the goals include: To help women start and gr...
On September 26, 2018, Corey Rimmel shared all about how his many business ventures led him to taking a risk in the Cannabis industry at our Meet & Eat. Corey graduated from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2012. He is the Founder of Hot Box Cookies and MizzMenus.com. Currently...
We teamed up with student organizations, WUTE and Y’s Thoughts, to bring Arteen Arabshahi to campus April 20th-21st. His stay was a part of a venture capital series that the aforementioned student groups hosted throughout this semester, titled WUTE.VC. Arteen closed out the series as the final vi...
