Entrepreneurship Blog
Tuck Summer Venture Award goes to team Glory Days!
Posted 11 months, 4 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours, 59 minutes ago by Joaquin Villarreal
As recipients of the Summer Venture Award, Eben Pingree (T'13), Keyen Farrell (T'13) and John Ramey (UCLA Anderson) will spend the summer developing and executing a concept for a start-up in the Barris Incubator space, alongside other teams from around campus. Sneak peak from the team: As time passes, friends grow apart, reunions become less frequent, and...
Brent’s View: Back to My Entrepreneurial Roots
Posted 1 year, 4 weeks, 10 hours, 58 minutes ago by Leonard White
Growing up in a house of entrepreneurs where both parents literally worked out of our garage at some point, I was exposed at an early age to the incredible ride that is a start-up: the hard work, the sweat equity, the true grit it takes to start something on your own. Paradoxically, that actually looked appealing to me, so after a few years of consulting I ventured...
Divya’s View: Getting Bit by the Entrepreneurial Bug
Posted 1 year, 1 month, 2 weeks, 6 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes ago by Leonard White
This post was written by Divya Mani, T'12: Full disclosure: I do NOT self-identify as an entrepreneurial person. Before Tuck, I spent five years as a strategy consultant for large for-profit and non-profit organizations; after Tuck, I’m headed to Procter and Gamble, where I’ll be working on one of the biggest brands in the world (Gillette). Though I...
Dan’s View: NOLA post-post-Katrina
Posted 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 22 minutes ago by Leonard White
This post was written by Dan Ettinger, T'13, one of the student leaders of the Tuck team: When I visited New Orleans two years after Katrina, the storm came up in every conversation. The implicit message was that the city was significantly worse off. Six years later, that's no longer the case. Thanks to organizations like the Idea Village and government and business...
Tuck Meets the Bayou: New Orleans E-ship Week
Posted 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days, 23 hours, 1 minute ago by Leonard White
A team of eight first- and second-year Tuck students just returned to Hanover from New Orleans. We particpated in IDEAcorps, a MBA spring break program that was sponsored by the Idea Village (an entrepreneur incubator) and folded into New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (a week-long celebration of entrepreneurship and its role in New Orleans' recovery). The week...