5 Entrepreneurial Lessons From Inspirational Commencement Speeches
Before the handshake, the diploma exchange, the turning of tassels, or the tossing of caps, this year’s crop of college graduates will experience a treasured tradition: inspirational commencement speeches.
April 26, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Honest Stories from Women Leaders
A spreadsheet malfunction that prompted a moment of clarity. An entrepreneur’s brush with anthropology. The challenges of being women in male-dominated industries. Hear anecdotes, advice, and life lessons from some of Boston's top female CEOs.
March 27, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Failure: Just What the Doctor Ordered
We’ve all heard the stories—Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, Oprah was let go from her first television job, and Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school multiple times. From these great failures came great success. But can failure work for everyone?
February 24, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Insights
Students Backing Students: The Rise of the Dorm Room Venture Capitalist
Rough Draft Ventures' peers-funding-peers model gives young entrepreneurs access to equity-free capital and resources, and gives students access to learning about the Venture Capital industry. Above all, it encourages entrepreneurship and creates a community of student founders that have gone on to launch successful ventures after graduation.
February 3, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
How Coca-Cola is Leading Women's Empowerment in the Developing World
What does it mean to empower women? For the Coca-Cola Company, women’s empowerment takes form in 5by20, a global initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs across the company’s value chain by 2020.
January 5, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
