The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School

01/21/2021

In our latest Forbes article, VP at Big Idea Ventures Abby Lyall gives 3 key tips for negotiating a higher valuation for your startup.

"As a young company with a short history and little to no revenue, there simply isn’t a formula capable of producing a neat round number that objectively represents the value of your business. Valuation, then, becomes the art of making a deal, not the science of building a spreadsheet."

Valuing an early stage startup is often an opaque and complicated process for startup founders. Take a peek into the mind of an early-stage investor to learn what venture capitalists are really looking for and how to put your best foot forward in a negotiation.

10/23/2020

In our Forbes blog post, Basil Alomary '21 deconstructs the AI development cycle on the opportunities for investment in the underlying infrastructure. While innovations in AI are exciting, it’s less difficult to identify and bet on the technologies supporting AI rather than predicting who will provide the voice assistant of the future.

AI has been heralded as the catalyst for a new industrial revolution. While the potential for massive impact is very real, venture investors looking to capitalize on growth ought to spend more time considering the enabling infrastructure.

10/19/2020

10/16/2020

According to MIT Sloan, "Only 1 in 20 business leaders would describe their companies as implementing AI widely
across the organization." Read more about AI's future in our Forbes blog post by Basil Alomary's '21.

AI has been heralded as the catalyst for a new industrial revolution. While the potential for massive impact is very real, venture investors looking to capitalize on growth ought to spend more time considering the enabling infrastructure.

10/16/2020

Coronavirus has created unprecedented healthcare transformation across society and reshaped the operations of businesses across the globe. This creates new opportunities for tech giants, entrepreneurs, and investors that may redefine the nature of the broader labor market for decades to come. Learn more about the healthcare & the gig economy in our Forbes article.

Coronavirus has created unprecedented healthcare transformation across society and reshaped the operations of businesses across the globe. This creates new opportunities for tech giants, entrepreneurs, and investors that may redefine the nature of the broader labor market for decades to come.

10/09/2020

Coronavirus has created unprecedented healthcare transformation across society and reshaped the operations of businesses across the globe. This creates new opportunities for tech giants, entrepreneurs, and investors that may redefine the nature of the broader labor market for decades to come. Learn more about the healthcare & the gig economy in our Forbes blog post.

Coronavirus has created unprecedented healthcare transformation across society and reshaped the operations of businesses across the globe. This creates new opportunities for tech giants, entrepreneurs, and investors that may redefine the nature of the broader labor market for decades to come.

10/09/2020

AI has been heralded as the catalyst for a new industrial revolution. While the potential for massive impact is very
real, venture investors looking to capitalize on growth ought to spend more time considering the enabling
infrastructure.

AI has been heralded as the catalyst for a new industrial revolution. While the potential for massive impact is very real, venture investors looking to capitalize on growth ought to spend more time considering the enabling infrastructure.

10/07/2020

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise will host their 19th Annual Social Enterprise Conference, Capital for Good event on October 9. Held throughout the academic semester, this headline event from the Tamer Center at CBS will bring social impact leaders in business, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy to speak on how they are changing the way we think about how capital is sourced and used to generate sustainable solutions to global, systemic challenges.

Columbia Business School brings a global perspective, cutting-edge methodology, and the energy of New York City to its MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, PhD, and MS programs.

10/02/2020

Maor Cohen '19, CEO, Co-Founder of n gram health health shares his thoughts on how healthcare will determine the gig economy's future in our Forbes article, "Why Healthcare Is Eating The World: The Gig Economy’s Role In The Future Of Work."

Coronavirus has created unprecedented healthcare transformation across society and reshaped the operations of businesses across the globe. This creates new opportunities for tech giants, entrepreneurs, and investors that may redefine the nature of the broader labor market for decades to come.

09/30/2020

This week we celebrate CBS alumna Timmeko Moore Love ‘03, who recently became the first Black woman to serve as a Managing Director or Managing Partner of a Fortune 500 corporate venture capital fund, and was named to the Global Corporate Venturing Top 100 Powerlist. She was the first Black woman to receive a degree in Physics from Dartmouth in 1996. Timmeko also received a BS in Physics from Florida A&M and a Masters in Engineering Physics from Cornell
https://globalcorporateventuring.com/gcv-powerlist-2020-timmeko-moore-love