Wisbusiness: The Podcast

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Yu-Lin Yang, president of Transcend UW. This student org, which grew out of UW-Madison’s engineering department, helps connect participants with funding sources for their startup ideas. Student organizers put on a number of events throughout the year, including an innovation competition, project reviews with Madison entrepreneurs, pitch events, workshops on intellectual property and coaching opportunities. Transcend UW gave $55,000 last year in equity-free funds to student entrepreneurs. As Yang explains, other student orgs on campus will work with business clients that need a certain project done, so they structure student projects around those requests. “For us, we are super open-ended,” Yang said. “We want students to come up with their own ideas, their own ambitions, and come compete.”