Student Entrepreneurs Speak Out: #5 in a series
Entrepreneurs: The Solution to the Slowing Growth by Carnegie Mellon Junior, Rohan Wadhwani Across the world, there are major financial problems, whether it’s the contagion in Europe or our own national debt issues here in...
Fred OIiveira brings Silicon Valley entrepreneurial culture to Portugal
As a computer science student at a leading university, Fred Oliveira could have gotten a job with a major technology company anywhere in the world. Google awarded him a prize in 2005 for participating in open-source projects....
Entrepreneurial current events: November 28, 2011
There are a few things that I read recently that are of interest to us entrepreneurs: Global advertising agency, Euro RSCG Worldwide named Pittsburgh’s tech community as one of the top five trends to watch in 2012....
Student entrepreneurs speak out: #4 in a series
Transitioning from a small startup: when should you hire a CFO? by CMU-Portugal student, Guilherme Pamplona Santos One of the most common types of financing for startup companies that manage to survive their foundation and...
Student entrepreneurs speak out: #3 in a series
Thoughts on University Entrepreneurship in Portugal: the systemic problem, the ideology, and the jump start by João Nuno Vasco Henriques, CMU-Portugal program student As a nation with many successful entrepreneurs, both in the...
Student entrepreneurs speak out: #2 in a series
CMU senior, Tony Wang, reflects on Inc’s 30 under 30. Entrepreneurs are often thought of as people who don’t accept the current status quo. They are the ones with the ideas and know-how to really change how the world...
John Dick serializes entrepreneurship, live and in person: CivicScience
Here’s another story about an entrepreneur who never thought he would be one until the opportunity slapped him in the face. Then a few years later another opportunity made him jump from his company to a new startup. CivicScience...
Students entrepreneurs speak out: #1 in a series
Why I Freaked Out When My Classmates Said They Wanted To Start Their Own Companies by Amanda Gobaud, Carnegie Mellon University Senior I recently read an article my friend retweeted from @newsycombinator entitled “Do Not, Under...
Entrepreneurial current events: four bills for entrepreneurship
Four bills favoring entrepreneurship are knocking on the door of approval: The first is a bill passed by the House on November 3 called the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” which allows crowd funding à la Kickstarter. Early...
Unleashing entrepreneurship@CMU during Global Entrepreneurship Week
For the third year CMU celebrates entrepreneurship as part of the week before Thanksgiving, dubbed Global Entrepreneurship Week by our nation’s foundation for entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation. During one week year, thousands...