Recent Posts
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Language Leads to Action: The Key Words Used By Successful Entrepreneurs
By Executive Director, Dan Cohen, Ph.D We have a bold ambition at Wake Forest University’s Center for Entrepreneurship—we want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in our students. A recent paper titled, The Language of Successful Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Starting Point for the Entrepreneurial Mindset, […]
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Launching Your Venture in College: It’s (Almost) Always the Right Time
By Visiting Assistant Professor, Greg Pool Aside from the obvious fact that some of the fastest-growing and most identifiable companies started out as collegiate ventures (Facebook, Microsoft, Dell, Reddit and many others), there are good reasons why launching your venture in college may be the […]
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What does it mean to tell a story that is “rational?”
By Associate Professor of Communication, Rebecca Gill, Ph.D In a previous blog post, I discussed the confusing, sometimes conflicting, advice given to entrepreneurs when it comes to telling their story. Part of the problem with this advice is that it forgets to take into […]
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Demo Day 2018
HYPE Sam Perkins ’18 Hype is a mobile app attempting to disrupt the restaurant review industry by getting rid of the need for traditional reviews altogether. People have a hard time trusting reviews of dining locations based on the tastes and background of total strangers. By […]
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George Papakonstantinou (’18)
“Prior to Startup Lab, I believed that the most successful entrepreneurs were just lucky or just in the right place at the right time. But through Startup Lab, I learned the specific method that entrepreneurs go through including customer discovery and validating your idea, which […]