HSC Demo Day 2012

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Congratulations to the 18 student ventures that came out to win $5500 in cash prizes.

Special thanks to the 300+ people from Northeastern and the Boston Community who came out to support these awesome ventures!

Click here to check out the coverage from Bostinno

First Place ($2,000)- Lens Caddy

Preston Turk

Second Place ($1,500)- Scoop, There it Is

Hana Nobel, Veronica Li, Alex DiSchino (Left to Right)

Third Place ($1,000)- HardBoil

Marty Chang

Audience Favorite ($1,000)- Sweet Therapy

 Chung Tran, Kaylan Nyi Tran, Angel Han, Malisa Ekachonniyum (Left to Right)

Great job to all the members of the HSC this spring- you are all adding to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Northeastern and Boston.

 We look forward to seeing everyone back in the Fall for another awesome HSC!

Advertising Angel

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Special thanks to Jennifer Lum for coming out to speak to us tonight! Jennifer told us that is OK to not always know what you are doing. Jennifer took a huge risk in leaving a promising career in consulting by joining a mobile tech startup she thought was cool. Later the startup was sold for over $200 million, and with that experience she went on to build several successful startups. Jennifer concluded by telling us to keep learning and challenging ourselves, even if that means joining several different startups!

At our last speaker event of the semester, groups gave 60 second pitches about their startups. We look forward to continuing the E-Pods next semester with new teams and ideas.

Member Spotlight

Erin Conrad

What entrepreneurship means to you: Entrepreneurship allows students to develop their passions while starting a business. When managed well, it’s a great way for students to focus their ambitions.

Your Passion: My passion is definitely what I study: understanding business culture and its effects on the global economic system.

Your Interests: Cultural anthropology, international affairs, economics, culture, and sustainable development, academically. Outside of the classroom, though, I’m much less serious, as I enjoy cracking jokes, movies, music, and food.

Future Plans: I plan on finishing my undergraduate degree, taking a year off to travel, and then beginning a PhD program in cultural anthropology in 2014.

Something interesting about you: My favorite country in the world is Iceland, and I could go on for hours listing the reasons why. It’s just the most fascinating place.

Mattress Millionaire

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Big thanks to NU Alum ’10 and CEO of Olejo Stores Dan Dietz for coming in to speak with us last night! Initially, Dan mostly focused on increasing revenues, rather than reducing expenses and generating profits. What’s wrong with that? Unfortunately, too many businesses with high revenues shut down because of even higher expenses. In order to stay in business, Dan told us to have strong business models that focus on efficiency and generating profits.

Today E-Pod groups worked together to create business models and figure out how their businesses would make $$$$. As always, new members are strongly encouraged to join!

Member Spotlight

Andy Doan

What entrepreneurship means to you: Entrepreneurship means innovation, risk-taking mindset, and confidence to me. It also means believing in what we are doing and trying hard to make impossibilities possible.

Your Passion: I’d say my passion is learning new things by doing/traveling. I’m kind of a person who likes to explore and overcome challenges to reach the final target.

Your Interests: Definitely soccer (play more than watch), basketball, traveling, meeting new people, volunteering, and a lot more.

Future Plans: I like traveling to places that I haven’t been to before with my family. However, before doing that, I might consider to make and then save money $$$ from having several successful start-ups or working at one of any international company’s branches. It is great to do something that I like from achieving what I do on my own.

Something interesting about you: My little brother and I have the same birthday

Demo Day 2012

Thursday, April 12 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM

The Husky Startup Challenge (HSC) is Northeastern University’s semester-long startup competition that helps students with ideas formulate the structure to turn their ideas into successful companies.

This year’s ventures include ideas in the high tech, clean energy, consumer product and cloud computing industries.