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Lessons Learned From the Duke Start-Up Challenge, Inside and Out

(02/18/14 5:30pm)

Being both a participant and a leader, I have been on both sides, learning more throughout every step along the way. I have been able to understand what it takes to be a great participant, and I have now seen what it takes to lead a fantastic Start-Up Challenge. Considering the Start-Up Challenge is, to me, one of the best resources campus has to offer, I will try my best to consolidate the lessons I have learned into just a few.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/02/lessons-learned-duke-start-challenge-inside-and-out

Breaking the Status Quo

(02/11/14 10:59pm)

At the Duke Start-Up Challenge, we encourage innovation throughout every step of the process. We encourage our entrants to create out of the box, crazy ideas; we encourage our judges to push our participants to break the mold and make their ideas even better; and internally, we constantly look inside to see how we can improve upon ourselves and how we can make the process better. Each week, we meet to discuss not only what we need to do now, but we take a step back and look at the big picture, which is often neglected in all different kinds of processes.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/02/breaking-status-quo

Catching Up with Past Duke Start-Up Challenge Participants

(02/04/14 7:30pm)

We are going back in time this week, taking a look at how some of our participants remember their times at Duke, their experiences in the Start-Up Challenge, and where they are now. To say they reflect positively on the Start-Up Challenge and their other experiences is an understatement! We interviewed Justine Chow (2012), Trevor Ragan (2010), and Chuck Eesley (2002).

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/02/catching-past-duke-start-challenge-participants

What does it mean to be an "entrepreneur"?

(01/29/14 8:45pm)

According to Merriam-Webster, an entrepreneur is “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” When people think of entrepreneur, and as I saw in my Sociology of Entrepreneurship class, they often think of buzzwords like “innovation” and “startups” and in today’s day and age, normally “Silicon Valley”, “tech”, and “new apps” tend to come to mind when you think of an entrepreneur. However, to me, being an entrepreneur is not just someone who starts a business or someone who is takes monetary risks, but rather someone who thinks in an innovative way and changes the way other people think.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/01/what-does-it-mean-be-entrepreneur

My Experience as a Start-Up Challenge Participant

(01/21/14 11:37pm)

As a Duke Start-Up Challenge participant myself, I know just how amazing of an experience the Challenge was and how the experience changed the direction of my start-up experience. I entered into the Duke Start-Up Challenge my freshmen year, new on campus, and not knowing about the plentiful resources Duke could offer. The first round started with my having to develop Star Toilet Paper from a business, which had been running, into a written idea summary and business plan. The fact that our team had to hammer out each aspect of our business, from a summary to a competitive analysis to financial projections, was essential to our future growth.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/01/my-experience-start-challenge-participant

An insiders look at the Duke Start-Up Challenge

(01/14/14 7:20pm)

This month, Indiegogo is excited to partner with Duke to enable second round students in the Duke Start-up Challenge to share and move forward their start-ups with the support of their community and larger crowd. You can see the participating campaigns that went live on the Duke Partner Page. Indiegogo is an egalitarian company, and promotes the campaigns on its site with the highest gogofactor, its proprietary measure of social engagement. Find, support and share the campaigns that you most care about today so that Duke students can make the most of this exciting partnership!

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2014/01/insiders-look-duke-start-challenge