The highlight of March in the middle of an endless winter quarter was the Ignite Conference co-hosted by Rice University and UC Davis. This is just a preview of the first Bay Area tour day, which was followed by two days of speakers.
Each founder had very different reasons and motivations for building their company but they all faced and surmounted relentless amounts of challenges. I especially learned a lot from Nicholas Seet and Mark Randall's talks, and how a technology first approach could have drawbacks.
Best part of the entire experience was meeting like-minded and passionately bright students from Davis, Rice, Lamar, Baylor.