Posts by Kelly Burch

Economic uncertainty has given investors pause, but there’s still plenty of opportunities to be had, according to a panel at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum. Rising interest rates, mass layoffs and a general sense of unease about the health of the economy has caused many investors to tap the brakes on venture capital investing.  But that…

The founder and CEO of the financial services company Achieve bootstrapped the company and scaled it to more than 3,000 employees. He spoke at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum about what he’s learned over 20 years of entrepreneurship. Looking back on more than two decades of entrepreneurship, Andrew Housser ’95, Founder and CEO of Achieve, sees…

Scores of alumni, students, faculty and other Dartmouth community members gathered at the Hanover Inn to celebrate and strengthen a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. With celebrated alumni, faculty, current students and even local high schoolers in attendance, Jamie Coughlin, Director of the Magnuson Center, opened the annual Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum earlier this month, held in Hanover…

The Magnuson Center & Rassias Center Social Entrepreneurship Experience in Mexico City brought students, educators and entreprenuers together. Ten Dartmouth students travelled to Mexico City last month for the Magnuson Center & Rassias Center Social Entrepreneurship experience Mexico City, Mexico. The journey was part of a broader Global Dartmouth initiative that the Magnuson Center hopes…

Each research team participating in The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer meet with the panel of experts three times. Behind the research teams participating in The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer (DIAC), there’s a secret weapon of sorts—the group of 30 experts in biotechnology who comprise the External Review Panel (ERP). They work for venture capital…

The Magnuson Center’s Maggie Ronan recently attended the Elevate Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, where she learned a new approach to diversity and inclusion. When Maggie Ronan, Program Manager for Startup Support at The Magnuson Center, went to the Elevate Conference, she expected to learn a shared lexicon and norms around diversity,…

cosMYC, a company that grew out of research supported by the Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Cancer, is working to identify potential new cancer drugs. Michael D. Cole, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology at Geisel School of Medicine, and research scientist Ed Feris have worked for years—more than four decades in Cole’s case—to identify a…

The Accelerator, a partnership between the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship, will help researchers bring their technology to market. Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine, knows that too often, scientific innovations don’t reach the people that could benefit from them the most.…

The Magnuson Center is supporting socially inspired entrepreneurship and engaging with global challenges, beginning with a new grant program. The Magnuson Center is supporting five individuals engaging with global social entrepreneurship challenges through a new program, the Social Founders and Changemakers for Impact grant. “This grant is meant to be providing greater access and individual…

The Magnuson Center’s Social Entrepreneurship Program worked with the Hood Museum to create an exhibit that highlighted the tension between innovation and sustainability. Students and staff gathered last week at the Hood Museum of Art to consider a selection of environmental photography curated to facilitate a discussion about the impact of entrepreneurship and innovation on…