Tag: Venture

Someone told me as I had just started at Rainmaking Venture Studio this year, that I got the dream job. That most business school graduates want to work in McKinsey, BCG, or venture building. And now I am in one of them. Now, I do not know about this being the ultimate dream job. B...

Coming up with the idea was the fun part. I loved brainstorming about the Metis model, writing drafts of our theory of change, and meeting with mentors for feedback. Those first few months were an adrenaline rush from the process of bringing a new organization to life. Then my Co-Foun...

Today’s many challenges present an opportunity to become a powerful catalyst for change and have a transformative effect on society. The most effective social entrepreneurs combine the desire to improve people’s lives with the realization that their social ventures can responsibly genera...

Michael Gordon ’16, Christian Nicholson ’15, and their team won first place at the Strakosch Venture Competition in 2016, formerly known as the Shea Venture Competition. Gordon and Nicholson’s app EchoMe took home $10,000 after they placed first in the Traditional Business Track gr...

Sometime around 400 years BCE in Greece, Plato was writing about the world of ideas, or forms. In his view, ideas are only perceptible and accessible to us through reason — a place in our minds where “perfect” forms exist. We know well that in this place, we create visions of the f...

I was meeting with a founder who’d been struggling to fundraise for a few months. His company was profitable and growing fast, and he couldn’t understand why venture capitalists weren’t interested. Conversely, I was struggling to understand why he was fundraising. “But ...