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Passion and teamwork can turn a bunch of ordinary folks into an unbeatable winning team.

Prakah Iyer
September 24, 2019
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Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

Larry Page
September 17, 2019
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Believe you can, and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt
September 10, 2019
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Push yourself to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Risk-taking always pays off, either in success or learnings that make you grow.

Erica Swerdlow
September 3, 2019
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Creative people do not see things merely for what they are; they see them for what they can be.

Julie Israel
August 27, 2019
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And suddenly you know - it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Meister Eckhart
August 20, 2019
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I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Virginia Rometty
May 14, 2019
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
May 7, 2019
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

John Cage
April 30, 2019
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By Entrepreneurship

UB Case Competition

In April, Team Calorie Surplus – Xueying “Shelley” Chen, Carolina Lion He, and Shengyang “Shawn” Wu – participated in the University at Buffalo Case Competition, where each team was given a business case to solve. The team learned valuable lessons throughout the competition that they want to share with fellow student entrepreneurs.

Read more about Team Calorie Surplus’s experience.

April 25, 2019
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What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Sheryl Sandberg
April 23, 2019
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By Entrepreneurship

5 Storytelling Tips

On Monday, March 25, the Ain Center hosted the third and final Mark Ain Business Model Workshop of 2019. Building on the fall Foundry Forum workshops, this series is designed to help entrepreneurs prepare for upcoming business plan competitions. This workshop – Startup Storytelling: Become a Master of Pitching – helped students learn about how to pitch a venture and tell a compelling story. We’ve summarized five key points. 

Read all five tips from the storytelling workshop.

April 18, 2019
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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Roy Ash
April 16, 2019
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