Written by Pascal Finette
January 9, 2020
By now you have heard this a gazillion times: The lore of the lone founder is not only exaggerated but plain wrong. Companies are built by groups of dedicated people, …
Written by Alison E. Berman
December 19, 2019
Imagine a world where everyday public spaces have become lush urban farms—a world where subway walkways grow nutrient-dense produce for anyone to utilize, and public elementary school gymnasium walls have …Written by Pascal Finette
December 5, 2019
Founders often smirk when they hear people talk about strategy, strategic planning, or any other term prefaced with “strategy/strategic.” In a world that constantly shifts in the blink of an …
Written by Carmela Fortin
November 25, 2019
Often we hear about the pursuit of a growth mindset in an effort to shift our thought process away from incremental thinking towards exponential growth. You may possess incredible amounts …
Written by Paul Orlando
November 15, 2019
No location has a monopoly on innovation. However, out of simplicity and because of selective media awareness, we often focus on a small number of innovation hubs rather than look …
Written by Greg Larkin
November 7, 2019
From 2009 – 2014, I built one of the first commercially viable robo-advisors, the first deep-learning network that could detect market-moving Congressional legislation, and one of the earliest trading algorithms …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, …