By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the sources of your applications? Julia: They come from all over the world, from students to faculty in greater Phoenix, the nation, and the world. They really come from all over the place.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What tools do you use to accomplish your mission? Kerry: Because we don’t specialize in a specific industry, protocol, or niche, and we don’t specialize in a particular stage – they are obviously all early-stage companies – we don’t think they need a curriculum or set
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Julia: Many times, our early-stage entrepreneurs don’t have the resources to pay professional service providers. They’re much more interested in working with a group of bright graduate students. So, we connect entrepreneurs with students who might be able to perform certain services for them.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: How many applicants do you accept? Kerry: We will take 15 companies in [each of] the upcoming sessions, and that is the maximum we accept because we think there is really good interaction between them at that number. It will be a maximum of 60 people,
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Julia: Maybe I should give you a bit of context about to why we’re doing this and why our programs are, perhaps, a little different from the others you’ve presented in your interviews. Of course, we are a public university. We are the largest public university in
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: So, if we take a company like Scvngr, which is among our alumni, when they applied [the founder] was a 17-year-old from Princeton who was a technologist, very savvy, visionary, but he really needed someone to build out more of the front-end sales and marketing operations
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What are your core benefits? Kerry: We provide a lot of the same types of services that you will see in other accelerator programs, but I will describe them just to make sure we talk about them, and then we will talk about a couple of
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Julia Rosen, associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship at Arizona State University about the Venture Catalyst program at ASU. Irina: Hi, Julia. Let’s start with a brief overview. Julia: The Venture Catalyst is the new entrepreneurial platform at Arizona State University that