This session addresses 13 strategic marketing imperatives every startup must get right to avoid losing time, money and market position, based on interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and subject matter experts and Lisa’s 20 years of experience helping startup CEOs. If you believe Marketing happens after you finalize your product, or that Marketing is confined to […]
Leen Kawas, Ph.D., has served as Athira Pharma’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since January 2014. Previously, Dr. Kawas served as our vice president. Dr. Kawas serves on multiple boards, including the Washington Governor’s Life Science Advisory Board, Scientific Review Board for the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and […]
Join us for the next *virtual* UW Space Symposium! Free registration! Featuring speakers from NASA, PNNL, First Mode, UW and more! This year’s theme is “Powering Space” with special focus on propulsion and sustainable built environments. We will also be discussing design for social good in the space sector and workforce development, particularly in the […]
Launching a new company is an exciting journey! Entrepreneurs balance the people culture and cultivate the passion for all things related to the product or service to make things happen. Today, people clamber to work for companies where the CEO pays as much attention to the growth and development of the team as they do […]
Hardware startups face technical problems which require technical solutions. But that doesn’t mean all hardware founders need to be engineers. Learn how one non-technical founder is leading a company to make mixed reality “doggles” to make special operations canines better than ever. A.J. Peper holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Oregon. […]
From chip shortages to ship shortages, the past two years have been brutally difficult from a supply chain perspective. What have we learned, and how have some companies successfully navigated the increasingly complex and rapidly evolving problem of getting the right parts to the right place? Jennifer Eby is the president/CEO and relationship manager of […]
here’s a lot to learn about 5G and noise as well. This session is focused on covering 5G basics, the opportunity, its role in the market, and how entrepreneurs should be thinking about the opportunity. This session is hosted by Jim Brisimitzis who is the Founder and General Partner of the 5G Open Innovation Lab […]
Eight years after recognizing the need to completely reimagine the technical interviewing process, Karat now helps some of the world’s largest companies like Indeed, Amazon, and Intuit meet their hiring goals for software engineers. But the company isn’t stopping there — following a recent investment from tennis champion Serena Williams, Karat is now working […]
This virtual, drop-in, advising session is designed to give you time to ask questions that may have come up after you’ve viewed our On Demand Information Session. Join us online to ask any questions you may have regarding the MS in Entrepreneurship application, the admissions process, or the program in general. Please note, drop-in sessions […]
The Start Something series features intimate conversations with some of the most successful entrepreneurs and leaders in Seattle’s innovation ecosystem. Oren Etzioni, a professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at UW and entrepreneur, founded the nonprofit TrueMedia.org as a free tool that leverages AI to detect political deepfakes online—a critical part of the conversation […]
