Written by Pascal Finette
August 26, 2019
“May you live in interesting times.” —Chinese Proverb This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. Some say it is a curse. …
Written by Monique Giggy
August 12, 2019
Success comes in so many forms. Over recent months, SU’s Global Startup Program (GSP) team hosted 562 founders, Entrepreneurs-In-Residence, exponential speakers, and SU Faculty spanning over two countries and three …
Written by Darlene Damm
July 8, 2019
As a small child, growing up in a rural farming town on the central coast of California with the largest cities located over 200 miles away, I didn’t really have …
Written by Ja-Naé Duane
May 23, 2019
Last May, after I finished my business modeling session at SU’s Incubator, Monique Giggy, VP of Ventures, asked me to take a walk. As we strolled around the NASA campus, …
Written by Anna Skaya
April 29, 2019
I love being a founder. I love working hard, having fun and getting things done—and having done this a few times, I know first-hand how exciting it is when momentum …Written by Monique Giggy
April 11, 2019
Many of our world’s most pressing problems fall within health, poverty, and disaster resilience. In fact, overpopulation and poverty in urban areas increase the risk of natural disaster vulnerabilities. These …Written by Pascal Finette
April 4, 2019
I recently discussed nurturing an exponential mindset and why that is important. To further help you adopt that expanded way of thinking, I’ve identified a couple of critical pre-cursors to …Written by Pascal Finette
March 18, 2019
In the US, we have a saying (which I first heard from my former Mozilla colleague David Asher): If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. …Written by Pascal Finette
February 28, 2019
In economics, one of the most famous and taught concepts is the demand curve—it depicts the relationship between price and quantity (high price, few buyers; low price, many buyers). Typically …
Written by Merry Richter
December 27, 2018
As we commemorate SU’s 10th anniversary, we’re reflecting on the impressive work of SU’s 60+ Portfolio Companies. These impact-focused ventures are building moonshot solutions to global challenges using exponential technologies. …