"The Imagine Cup Grants will help students evolve a great idea for addressing a societal issue into a real-world business," said Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, in a canned statement today.
Guts are about having the courage to initiate, endure, and evolve around an idea.
The business evolved from an idea she had during her time at Cambridge university – she wanted to find out if technology could replace money.
That evolved from an idea to attract more tourists by attaining spa status for the city's public pools, which have seawater and sulfur baths.
Anthony K. Tjan says that lack of guts may be the most common barrier to entrepreneurial success: "Guts are about having the courage to initiate, endure and evolve around an idea.
Together the three of them came up with a plan, which eventually evolved into an idea for a vast chain of replicable schools, their growth powered by small tuition payments from working parents — fruit sellers, night watchmen and washerwomen.
Now with 28 colleagues at Wanelo, Varshavskaya describes how the social shopping platform has evolved from an idea to a company.
"The app evolved from an idea Jisi had for a custom 'emoji' keyboard that would let you make emojis from your camera inside the keyboard, in any app," explains Broyles.
The name evolved from an idea to encourage empathy and respect among the school's athletes.
The Lion King evolved from an idea that Katzenberg first discussed while on a plane ride to Euro Disney.
For that reason, Mr. Schaller said, a hand-crafted rendering better conveys the sense of an evolving idea than a digital image that implies a fully finished design.
