April 24, 2012 Months of work by Georgetown’s most entrepreneurial students culminated in the 2012 Hoya Challenge business pitch competition finals on Saturday, April 21. Sixteen semifinalist teams, which had advanced from a 48-team preliminary round in March, pitched their business ideas to judging panels of entrepreneurs and investors. The Commercial Track champion was Bookend Technology, [...]

Article directly from the Hoya, by Sam Rodman: Internet pioneer and venture capitalist Ted Leonsis (COL ’77) spoke about entrepreneurship and the importance of empathy to his business success Friday evening. His talk in Reiss Friday was part of Students of Georgetown, Inc.’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. Leonsis owns the Washington Wizards, Mystics and Capitals and is the founder of SnagFilms, a website that streams independent documentaries. [...]

From the article “BlogFrog and the Power of Moms” by Jennifer Wang on Entrepreneur.com “The bloggers themselves–and the amount of trust they are able to engender among their readers–are perhaps the biggest determining factor in BlogFrog’s model. Although the company’s method of increasing the distance between advertising message and consumer should result in greater trust, authenticity isn’t guaranteed, [...]

By Elizabeth Schieffelin In Scott Dinsmore’s blog, “Live Your Legend”, he recently shared the top five books he rereads every year. Not surprisingly, Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi made the list. As a junior in college on the brink of the next phase of my life, I couldn’t be more pleased that I have [...]

By Elizabeth Schieffelin Elizabeth is a junior in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, majoring in regional & comparative studies. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Hoyapreneur On Monday March 20, I and the rest of Professor Will Finnerty’s Entrepreneurship class had the chance to listen to Melissa Bradley (B ’89) share her life [...]