Through the Lens of Innovation: Global Entrepreneurship Week
The Ain Center for Entrepreneurship hosted a number of events for 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Week. Sam Howard, an MBA candidate and member of the Ain Team, attended many of the programs and participated in the inaugural Creative Collision Challenge.
SASE National Conference and SASEtank
Gazi Mahir Ahmed Naven ’19 recently attended the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) National Conference. During the conference, he and his team also competed in SASEtank – a pitch competition, where they presented UPTICK, a data-driven affordable marketplace for student essentials.
Read more about the 2018 SASE National Conference experience.
NYC Startup Trek
This fall, the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship partnered with the Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections to facilitate an entrepreneurship trek to New York City. A small group of students and staff travelled to a number of startups and scaled companies over two days in October to see how innovation functions in different settings. MS in TEAM student Akshay Rajput shared some insight on the trip.
5 Tips for Customer Discovery
On Monday, October 22, the Ain Center hosted the second Foundry Forum, a new workshop series designed to train entrepreneurs. This workshop – The Voice of a Customer: Shut Up and Listen – covered a number of techniques and tricks for interviewing customers to determine market needs at all stages of your venture. We boiled down the workshop into a few key points.
Read all five recommendations for the customer discovery process.
Trekking NYC with Startup Fever!
This fall, the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship partnered with the Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections to facilitate an entrepreneurship trek to New York City. A small group of students and staff travelled to a number of startups and scaled companies over two days in October to see how innovation functions in different settings. MS in TEAM student Lani Chau wrote about her experience on the trip.
Read more about Lani’s journey on the 2018 Startup Trek to NYC.
An Awesome Opportunity: NSF I-Corps Programs @ UR
The University of Rochester supports the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Programs and, in honor of the upcoming short course, here’s an overview of what the Ain Center runs and how these programs can help launch your venture.
Read more about the University’s entrepreneurial offerings from the National Science Foundation.
Meliora Weekend 2018
We gathered to laud the history of entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester during the 2018 Meliora Weekend (a sort of homecoming and reunion celebration). Entrepreneurship has been around U of R for 40 (40!!) years. From a panel discussion to the Board of Trustees dinner, innovation was front and center throughout the weekend.
