Fear of Failure

Students struggle with finding good new ideas. “95% of startups fail in the first three years” is a pretty demotivating statistic to face, especially as a young person trying your hand at entrepreneurship. People often romanticize what it takes to build the next Airbnb, Netflix, or Uber from the ground up. The harsh reality? Most good ideas are a dime in a dozen, and even if you have a good one, an idea isn’t worth much unless you’re willing to work towards its actualization.

This week, we spoke with Stephen Golden, a renowned Entrepreneurship and Innovation Professor at Northeastern, to…

This past Saturday concluded the fourth bootcamp of The Spring 2021 Husky Startup Challenge. HSC is E-club’s semester-long venture incubator and pitch competition, supplemented with 8–9 weekly bootcamps and personalized mentorship, where students learn how to bring their business ideas to life.

The Husky Startup Challenge poses a unique opportunity for students of all majors and backgrounds to learn about entrepreneurship from speakers and directors that have valuable firsthand experience with early-stage startups (from ideation to business modeling to pitching to everything in between!). Attendees of the bootcamp on February 22 learned about startup strategy and positioning from Bob McCullough…

This semester, our executive board has grown tremendously in an effort to focus on community and collaboration within the Entrepreneurs Club. We added several new positions including Co-Directors of Community, a Director of IT, and our first-ever dedicated Content Creators (one of which is me!).

Our Spring 2021 board is proactively fulfilling its commitment to educating, inspiring, and empowering the student innovators, leaders, and founders of this school. With an increase in membership, we now have a whopping 23 members with different majors and backgrounds whose sole aim is to bring value to the Northeastern community.

Being an active member…

To all current students: now is the best time for you to become an entrepreneur. Now is the time to pool your skills and resources, identify the problems you or those around you are facing, and create opportunities to give back, heal, and learn about yourself along the way.

And here’s why…

It Starts with a Question

What have you learned over the past year? Maybe you picked up a new hobby during quarantine, spent much-needed quality time with your family, yawned your way through online classes, and binged one too many Netflix series just to escape the stress 2020…