Berkeley Haas MBAs Create Farmcation: Small Farming for Urbanites
Two MBAs who graduated this year from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley are turning their love for small farming and social enterprise into a business that will feed a growing trend – small farming for urbanites.
Farmcation, which will provide experiences for ‘guests’ such as volunteering, visits to small farms, and cooking classes using local ingredients, was formed in late 2015 by Caitlyn Toombs and Grace Lesser.
Iron Goat Tech Startup Takes Home $70K at MIT Competition
There are some great ideas and startups coming out of George Mason University. Iron Goat Technologies is one of them. This Mason-produced startup recently won $70,000 at the MIT Clean Energy Prize competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a report on the school website.
Seattle Entrepreneurs Can Attend Startup Weekend in June
Coming June 24th through 26th, Seattle business entrepreneurs, students and leaders will have the opportunity to attend Startup Weekend: A Touch of the Future. The event will bring together top business coaches and leaders in a three-day business sprint to create a brilliant startup idea. Continue reading…
LA Startups: More Than Just South of Silicon Valley
It’s tough growing in the shadow of a startup oasis, even if you find yourself living in the Southern California sun.
Los Angeles may sit a few hundred miles south of Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Metro, and it’s fertile land of tech culture and entrepreneurship, but The City of Angels is actually, in it’s own right, a hub for up-and-coming tech startups. Continue reading…
How MBA Grads Can Land Startup Jobs
So, you want to get your MBA to work in a startup.
You’re not alone.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, more startups recruit MBAs than any other type of organization. In fact, 53% of schools said that they saw more young companies on campus compared to companies with 500 employees or more.
Even more telling, a recent Harvard survey revealed in Fortune that during their 2015 summer internship season, about 600 out of 900 MBAs went to work at a startup. Continue reading…
Judge Business School MBAs Venture Forth with ‘Accelerate Cambridge’
Ideas for entrepreneurial ventures need a combination of elements in order to take form, and The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School’s Accelerate Cambridge program allows MBAs a forum in which these elements can synthesize.
Accelerate Cambridge provides students with three-month programs involving mentorship, coaching and training, as well as shared workspaces. Two recent MBA graduates from Judge recently shared their stories of how their ventures took off with the help of the program.
