TCU Neeley Hosts Annual Values and Ventures Competition
The Texas Christian University – Neeley School of Business recently served as host for the seventh annual Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition, awarding up to $79,700 in cash prizes to student entrepreneurs.
Rady Partners with Athena San Diego to Mentor Female Entrepreneurs
At UCSD’s Rady School of Management, developing women in business has always been a priority. In fact, just this year, the full-time MBA class welcomed 39 percent female students. And now, they’re taking their work one-step further. In partnership with Athena San Diego—which has worked for 20 years to connect and support women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)—Rady is offering mentorship to female founders and leaders as part of its mystartupXX accelerator. Continue reading…
Startup Lessons: ParkingBee
The path for startups can be treacherous. In the series “Startup Lessons,” we examine new MBA startups at the ground level to understand how they succeed.
Best Boston Entrepreneurship MBAs
Climbing the corporate ladder has gone the way of the Dodo. There’s genuine concern that employees no longer have faith investing their prime years in large corporations that bankrupted, decimated retirement plans and left the economy in shambles back in 2008.
“Mr. Diabolical Himself,” Steve Richardson, Michigan Ross MBA
Not unlike his Green Mountain State neighbors Bernie and Ben & Jerry’s, Stave Puzzles’ co-founder and self-described “chief tormenter” Steve Richardson makes a compelling argument for abandoning the well-trodden post-business school path for a slower, more scenic route—albeit one with a byzantine road.
Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books for Entrepreneurs
It seems like not a day goes by without your social media feed being peppered with posts of the “I hate my boss/job” variety. If not posts from friends, then it’s a clickbait story about someone who never considered going into business for him or herself and then doing just that.
If the success of Gimlet Media’s StartUp podcast and last year’s Christmas hit Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence as Miracle Mop tycoon Joy Mangano are any indication, folks are feeling cramped, boxed-in, suffocated, and you-name-it by the rigid demands of 9-5 corporate culture and are actively seeking alternatives.
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