Bright IDEAs

What is the IDEA Community Team? Why does a venture accelerator need one? What does it do? To partly answer that last one, it produces this podcast, but Jordan Lin came into answer the rest of these questions and many more in this great episode of Bright IDEAs. Jordan is IDEA's Community Director and resident psychologist who has helped form numerous connections between different ventures and team...

Starting a business is a stressful venture, as most people in IDEA can tell you. Even if you're not an entrepreneur, life has a nasty habit of burning people out. That's what was happening to Josh Gershon when he decided to team up with his longtime friend Brian Helfman to found Startup Island, giving young people a chance to discover themselves and take control of their own business and life. Hav...

Our first Venture interview has arrived! Vidhan Bhaiya, a fourth year student at Northeastern University and founder of Dr. Brinsley, shares with Jake the story that inspired him to design a fashionable and functional shoe to help diabetes patients move around easily. We discussed the sleeping habits that come with working along a cross-Pacific team, and how IDEA is helping him expand the Brinsley...

After getting through the Ready stage, IDEA Ventures enter the realm of Set. Here, the rough edges need to be ironed out and would-be entrepreneurs have to finalize the core pillars of their venture. IDEA's Set Stage Coordinator, Tyler Fohrman, talked to me out what the stage is like and his own adventure into the world of entrepreneurship at Northeastern.  EDIT: All entrepreneurs (even outside of...

Episode 2 sees Jake talking with Northeastern University's Stephen Golden, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a major asset in the Ready Stage, the first phase of the IDEA venture process.   We discussed how the Professor got involved with IDEA, his history with entrepreneurship, how to create powerful pitches, and how to avoid the pitfalls the swallow many early stage start-ups.

Welcome to the first episode of IDEA's podcast, Bright IDEAs! Exploring the intersection of entrepreneurship and student life, we'll be examining the people and ventures that are making campus vibrant with a start-up attitude. For this first episode, Host Jake Willis sat down with IDEA's CEO, Abhishek Balakrishnan, to discuss what IDEA is, where it's headed, and when's the best time to start a bus...