NVC Series: NVC Finals Live
This is the first time we are running a live stream of the NVC Finals as well as a Twitter takeover on The Booth Experience site. Hopefully it will show you what it feels like from the perspectives of both the audiences and NVC teams.
NVC Series: The Finalists are Here
Last year, when we found out that WillowFlare was lucky enough to be one of the 10 teams moving on to the finals of the NVC, we were both super excited and nervous. Only after going through the presentations with other teams, did we realize how competitive the NVC is and how great the ideas are. Don’t forget, we […]
NVC Series – Company Profile: Verdant Financial Services
Here at Booth, an interesting and special story is never a scarcity, especially after summer internships. But when I talked to Jesse Taylor, the founder of Verdant Financial Services and a good friend from the trenches of Commercializing Innovation, I was still very shocked by how special his summer internship was in an industry I had only […]
NVC Series – Company Profile: ezza
When fellow classmate Jamie Rubinstein mentioned their nail salon business to me for the first time, I immediately related back to the painful three-hour wait when my wife would do her nails. I am always amazed by how great pain points like these are being discovered by the ladies in NVC. Last year, we had a similar team […]
NVC Series: A Reflection on NVC from Coronado Conservation
In ten years time, I’m likely to forget about the teams who competed in NVC finals with us last year except for one—a team really changed my view about what diversity means at Booth and NVC, and taught me how passion can transform something from normal to extraordinary—a story about a toilet! I knew Shane Durkin from the very […]
NVC Series – Company Profile: Waaves
And here’s to the fools who dream Crazy as they may seem Here’s to the hearts that break Here’s to the mess we make I trace it all back to then Her, and the snow, and the Seine Smiling through it She said she’d do it again… The song that missed the Oscars by a […]
NVC Series – Company Profile: LemonBox
Two weeks ago, we started the NVC Series by laying out what you can expect to see. One of the components we want to show is the variety of the businesses involved in the competition — in terms of industry, stage, and management team. To provide a little flavor, throughout the competition we will introduce a […]
NVC Series: The Grand Opening
Why is everyone surveying his or her friends with exciting ideas? Why does everyone with an entrepreneurial spark have dark eye circles lately? What are they awaiting anxiously after those dark eye circles have faded? What are they so excited about in the next few days? How will investors grill them if they get in? […]
Booth VC Civil War – Energy Foundry VC Investment Competition
“Do you desire the fire of a business battle royale? A spectacular clash of Booth smarts, charismas, and egos? Come and see the struggle, the stakes, the glories of victory, and the agonies of defeat, the names of the winners, and the shame of the losers, and see our school’s champions of venture capital chosen […]