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May 4, 2011 -
Providence Journal
3 business plans recognized by
RIBX competition - Warshay students among winners
PROVIDENCE — Their entrepreneurship
professor told the three Brown University
undergraduates to think big, and he urged them to
get out and talk to the people who would eventually
use the product they dreamed of developing in his
class. “Danny preaches bottom-up research,” said
senior Robert D. [Dan] Aziz about Prof. Danny
Warshay, who has taught the class each of his five
years at Brown. As his students began crafting an
idea for a prenatal beverage supplement to give
pregnant women the vitamins they need without the
nasty side effects of large prenatal pills, junior
William Do went to the Whole Foods Market on North
Main Street and started chatting with a pregnant
woman. She told him women have what they call “horse
pills,” but no drink supplement.
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March 22, 2011 -
Brown Daily Herald
Spotted at Brown: Panties make
periods 'sexy'
Sexy Period was conceived in the spring of
2008, when Sygiel and co-founder Eunice Png '09 took
ENGN 1930: "Entrepreneurship and New Ventures" with
entrepreneur Danny Warshay '87, adjunct lecturer in
engineering. Warshay is familiar with start-ups — he
created his first business as an undergraduate.
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January 23, 2011 -
Providence Journal
Robin Squibb: My happy R.I.
entrepreneurial adventure
You’re nuts! You
can’t just start an iced-tea company.” We were
sailing south towards Beavertail. The wind was
perfect. The sun was warm. “You don’t know a
thing about the beverage business, marketing, sales!
Who’s going to pay for it? Have you ever written a
business plan?” I had spent the last 30 years
working as a script supervisor in the film business.
I barely knew what a business plan was. Sam had made
lots of dough as a private-equity investor.
..Rhode Island
being Rhode Island, it wasn’t long before I
discovered the helpful services of Danny Warshay, a
serial entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Brown
University who teaches entrepreneurial courses and
advises start-ups.
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- January 21,
2011 - Jewish Voice & Herald
Entrepreneurs: No ‘one size
fits all’
Rhode Island is a breeding ground for entrepreneurs
..Many people think
that entrepreneurs are big risk-takers, said
Warshay, the founder and managing director of DEW
Ventures, and a Brown University adjunct professor
teaching entrepreneurship. But smart entrepreneurs
find ways to spread risk, he said...
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September 17, 2010
- Jewish Voice & Herald
Drinking tea from the Amazon -
Runa: A socially responsible company
Just as the “eating
local” approach is gaining popularity across the
united States, three young Brown University
graduates want to bring Amazon-grown tea to American
consumers. The business plan Dan MacCombie, Tyler
Gage and Charlie Harding developed in Danny
Warshay’s entrepreneurship and new Ventures, a Brown
University class, was the genesis for their company,
Runa.
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- Fall, 2010 -
Brown InquireHer
A Brown Women in Business
Publication
...Danny Warshay's
course, Entrepreneurship & New Ventures, is the
class that I believe every student should take
before leaving Brown...
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- August 12, 2010
Estee Badt, CEO at Konot,
Retail Technology -
Top
Qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative
Danny Warshay led
an Entrepreneurship & New Ventures workshop for 30
CEOs sponsored by the Israel office of
Battery Ventures
“As one of 30 CEO
participants selected from among 150 applicants, I
had the pleasure of participating in Danny Warshay’s
entrepreneurship and innovation workshop that he led
for the venture capital firm, Battery Ventures. I
was especially impressed with Danny’s motivating way
of conveying entrepreneurial frameworks and teaching
concrete innovation skills, and his inspiring way of
leading Harvard case discussions. It is almost a
month after the workshop ended, and all 30 of us
have started to speak the ‘Danny’s innovation
language,’ to analyze our businesses with the
frameworks that Danny taught us, and to improve our
odds of success with the skills that we learned. For
me in particular, the workshop significantly changed
my way of overcoming several hurdles that I realized
were in the way of our innovation progress. Danny
told us that one of his explicit goals for the
workshop was to help us to develop more innovation
and entrepreneurial confidence, and I know that I
feel much more confident after participating. One
unexpected and pleasant outcome of the workshop is
that we 30 participants – busy CEOs – have made it a
priority to continue to communicate with each other
through Danny’s online alumni network. We have even
met twice as a group since the final workshop
session and intend to continue doing so monthly. I
hope to be able to participate in Danny’s future
workshops and recommend them to any executive,
entrepreneur or company looking to learn a proven
entrepreneurial and innovation process.”
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November 16, 2009 - The Brief, WBRU:
Entrepreneurship in Rhode Island
"..One thing that I
think we shouldn’t get too caught up in is trying to
chase what our neighbors are doing. I think we
should focus more on what we do well and trying to
really grow those areas.
Danny Warshay,
local entrepreneur, investor and advisor to many
early stage companies, and Professor at Brown
University concurs.
You don’t see
biotech being spawned in Rhode Island, but there’s
some world class kinds of positions that Rhode
Island does enjoy and what I’ve always argued, we
ought to focus on enhancing those and not trying to
invent new ones for which we’re not best suited to
compete.."
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- October 9, 2009 -
Business Week
Beyond Eureka - Looking for a great business idea?
These five steps will take you from blank slate to
booming
The process of
coming up with a great idea for a new business need
not be shrouded in mystery. Serial entrepreneurs, in
particular, tend to follow a well-thought-out,
disciplined process. "You increase your chances of
success when you use a well-defined methodology
rather than pulling an idea out of the air and
running with it," says Danny Warshay, a Brown
University adjunct professor and managing director
at Providence-based DEW Ventures, a firm that
invests in and coaches startups. A 2008 paper by
James Fiet, a professor of entrepreneurship at the
University of Louisville, found that training MBA
students to use a systematic approach dramatically
improved the wealth-creating potential of the
business ideas they generated.
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- ARTICLE: Daniel
Warshay, of Brown University, came to Portugal to
teach entrepreneurship to the ISCTE students
Did you know that recession periods are the best
moments to launch a new business? That is Brown
University’s entrepreneurship expert Daniel
Warshay’s conviction. The professor, also a
businessman, was in Lisbon for a week, advising
students of ISCTE, on the 6th Summer School,
dedicated, this year, to “Entrepreneurship,
innovation and culture”.
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- 2/4/2009 -
Providence Phoenix
Can the Geeks Save Rhode Island
Danny
Warshay, managing director of DEW Ventures in
Providence, cites PolyWorks, in Lincoln, as an
example. It makes highly specialized polyurethane
and silicone materials — gels, foams, silicones,
bladder devices used in a wide range of consumer and
medical products. "They have 30 manufacturing jobs,
they're growing, they're successful," Warshay says.
"And they're doing it at costs that compete
favorably with China — in fact, they're now shipping
products to China."
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