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How Battery Entrepreneurs Learned the Power of Environmentally Responsible Business

With the right training and support, battery innovators can hold to their environmentally responsible values even in this super-charged competitive space.

Blind Passion for Your Invention? Time for Tough Love

Innovators need tough love to help them balance passion with data to ensure their invention effectively solves a real-world problem.

Faculty Spotlight: Dustyn Roberts from Temple University

Professor Roberts strives to create classroom environments and session plans that enable a-ha moments for students.

Innovator Spotlight: Katie Kollhoff of NUMiX Materials

For Kollhoff, getting comfortable with discomfort has become a valuable survival skill.

3 Tips for Finding the Right Financial Partner

Regardless of the path you take, it’s important to think strategically when seeking the right long-term financial partner.

Activities for Teaching Innovation: Game-Based Learning in the Classroom

Game-based learning is an excellent way to boost student engagement, and an opportunity to introduce difficult course content or teach new skills.

What We’re Reading: 6 Recommended Innovation and Entrepreneurship Books

Faculty grantees and VentureWell thought leaders shared their must-read innovation and entrepreneurship books that are worth adding to your library.

Cool Ideas to Fix Global Warming: Preparing Cleantech Startups to Counter Climate Change

Climate change, dire threat that it is, also represents a long-overdue invitation to transform society through the adoption of sustainable technologies.

Innovator Spotlight: Blake Dubé of Aeronics, Inc.

Blake Dubé of Aeronics, Inc. found that talking with customers and mentors led to solutions and opportunities that he may not have considered.

9 Steps to Formulating a Successful Exit Strategy

VentureWell Senior Program Officer, Christina Tamer, identified nine important steps startups should take when creating an exit strategy.

Foster an Attitude of Gratitude

Thanksgiving is a time to foster an attitude of gratitude. We invite you to share what you’re thankful for this holiday season.

Building Startup Ecosystems: Good for Innovators, Good for the Economy

Heath Naquin profiles two I&E programs that are amplifying startup ecosystems to support innovators and drive economic growth.

Faculty Spotlight: Robbie Nock

Robbie Nock of ArtCenter College of Design provides students with the necessary skills to grow new ventures and thrive in rapidly changing industries.

Is Team Conflict Haunting Your Startup?

Team conflict doesn’t have to haunt your startup. Here are three steps to recognize, address, and reconcile tense team dynamics.

5 Keys to Unlocking Impactful Industry-University Collaborations

A Sustainable Solution to Food Waste: Give Produce a Longer Life

VentureWell E-Team Hazel Technologies has developed a sustainable solution to address the food waste crisis.

Customer Interviews: Tips, Do’s, and Don’ts

Customer interviews help entrepreneurs discover if their idea is worth pursuing before putting a lot of time and effort into it.

Innovator Spotlight: Maria Artunduaga

Maria Artunduaga of Respira Labs found experimentation to be a valuable asset as she developed an innovation to prevent unnecessary COPD-related deaths.

Rethinking Pitch Competitions: Create Value, Not a Spectacle

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