Amy Salin

Last Thursday we had a guest speaker by the name of Amy Salin who is assistant director from the University of Washington's Burek Center for entrepreneurship and she came to talk with the class about a few different competitions that have to do with entrepreneurship. The first competition she talked about had to with business plans and was titled Business Plan Competition 2016. Essentially the competition is a huge learning experience for those who have a business idea and want to see if it can garner any traction by submitting their business plan and getting valuable feedback about it. The grand prize for this competition is funding to help get your venture off the ground and other finalists also get s small amount of funding for their venture as well. The other competitions she mentioned were the environmental and medical innovation challenges, which have the same structure, but fit different fields other than entrepreneurship.