A Sea of Startups: Lessons from Running an Accelerator with Lydia Dick

Welcome back to The Dispatch! 

Today's guest is Lydia Dick. Lydia is the Director of the Commercialization Accelerator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Lydia spends her days working with university students to help clarify, refine, and, ultimately, commercially their business ideas. 

Starting a business is hard and no one I know has had more experience with that process than Lydia. She's worked with and coached hundreds of students on how to take their ideas from start to launch and I'm super proud to have her on the show today. 

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Here are links to a few of the people, products, and things mentioned in today's episode.

UAB Student Commercialization Accelerator

David Foster Wallace

Mix Max

Calendly