The Rice Innovation Fellows is a year-long program to support graduate students and post-docs from Engineering and the Natural Sciences in exploring the commercialization of their research. Run by the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) in partnership with the Ken Kennedy Institute, the Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering and the Smalley-Curl Institute, […]
Napier Rice Launch Challenge Winners 2021
We are so proud of all of the NRLC student startups that brought their all last night. The competition was fiercer than ever, and their months of hard work shone through. We’d like to give big congrats to last night’s champs: 1st Place – $27,500 Steve Jimenez (MBA 2022), Cristina Cabrera, Morgan Hill Ending veteran suicide […]
Behavioral Analytics in Private Equity, Growth Equity, and Venture Capital by Wendy Fong
In my last post, I discussed how behavioral analytics could be used for start-ups. Here, I’ll dive into how private equity, growth equity, and venture capital firms are utilizing people data. Study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90% (2011, HBR). One KPMG study narrowed the band of M&A failures to […]
Startup Etiquette with Merci Victoria Grace
Startup Etiquette with Merci Victoria Grace We often rely on frameworks, skillsets, and mindsets – many of which we can acquire in the classroom – to prepare us for a successful career. Even at Lilie, we emphasize the importance of entrepreneurial thinking and design processes. Yet we hear repeatedly that this notion of “luck” propelled […]
