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
The Revival of the Conglomerate?
Is there a revival of the conglomerate in the U.S. economy?
December 16, 2016
Posted in Insights
Fighting Global Iron Deficiency, One Lucky Iron Fish at a Time
Sets of three are lucky in Cambodia. But when Dr. Gavin Armstrong incorporated his company Lucky Iron Fish on 12/12/12, he wasn’t thinking much about luck. Rather, he was launching an innovative solution to one of Cambodia's biggest problems; iron deficiency.
December 5, 2016
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
4 Ways To Ace Your Venture Capital Funding Pitch
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s a harsh but true reality, especially for entrepreneurs seeking venture funding. In a world with millions of ideas, many of which are the same, why should a venture capitalist fund yours?
October 24, 2016
Posted in Insights
