Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurship

Join the Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College for the next meetup.

Drop by the next Athena Entrepreneurs meetup on Thursday, October 28 to connect with other students interested in entrepreneurship and learn if or when you’re ready to pursue VC funding. Before diving in to work on our own ideas, Athena’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Deepti Sharma, will lead a conversation with James Gettinger, early-stage venture investor at Gutter Capital. Join us if you’re curious to learn more about the dos and don’ts of pitching, what venture funders are seeking from founders, and what alternative sources exist for funding. Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students).

Thursday, October 28, 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Athena Center, 4th floor Milstein (no RSVP required)

Learn more about Athena Entrepreneurs at athenacenter.barnard.edu/eship

Athena Entrepreneurs | Athena Center for Leadership At Athena, we see entrepreneurship as a powerful way to build the world we want to inhabit. We take an approach to entrepreneurship that’s creative, collaborative, and conscious of impact, on others as well as on ourselves.

Apply to enter the Fast Pitch Competition (similar to “Shark Tank”) and win up to $5,000!

Watch as 50+ Columbia students, entrepreneurs and teams pitch their business ideas in 60 seconds in front of a live panel of judges at Fast Pitch 2021.

60 seconds
$5,000 on the line
Attendance and participation is free
The experience is priceless
Who will win?

Ready to pitch your idea? Apply by November 2nd.

https://entrepreneurship.engineering.columbia.edu/fast-pitch/

Columbia Engineering
Makerspace at Columbia

Fast Pitch - ​Columbia Engineering Fast Pitch Fast Pitch 2021 applications are now open! Columbia Engineering’s campus-wide annual elevator pitch competition. Teams have 60 seconds to sell their business ideas to a panel of judges to win up to $5,000. Your elevator pitch could be the most impactful way to convey your business to an...

Join us for our monthly Third Thursday forum to hear from new and current entrepreneurs! October's Third Thursday is about finding your Co-Founder!

Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021

Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PM

Third Thursday provides students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia faculty and other experts on ways to engage at Columbia, their experience in startups, and more.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/third-thursday-tickets-187719854137

Columbia Engineering
Makerspace at Columbia

Ask Me Anything: Coffee with Harry West

Wednesday, October 20th, 1:00 - 2:00 PM

FREE coffee available for students!

As part of our new coffee break series, we invite you to stop by for a conversation over coffee with Harry West and the Columbia Engineering entrepreneurship team. If you are participating in any programs on campus, interested in startups or want to learn more, please join us. Tell us about what you’re working on and your next steps!

Sign up by Tuesday, October 19th: https://forms.gle/Gd1ev2EznPtWwZmv8

Harry West: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty/harry-west

Tags: Makerspace at Columbia Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE)

Start Me Up Bootcamp Fall 2021 begins on October 21

Join Columbia Engineering's Start Me Up Bootcamp, a virtual course to test your idea in the market! Participants in this free, two-week course will receive entrepreneurship training and mentor support as they virtually talk with customers to identify the best product-market fit using the lean launchpad methodology. Faculty, staff, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student researchers may apply with a team of one to three people.

Applicants are expected to be available for all short-course sessions from October 21- November 5. Teams that successfully complete this bootcamp may become eligible to apply for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Teams program, which includes a $50,000 grant. Application Deadline: rolling; first come, first serve.

For more information visit: https://entrepreneurship.engineering.columbia.edu/bootcamp/

Deadline Alert! Apply for Almaworks by Monday, October 4th at 11:59 PM.

Working on a startup? Almaworks helps early-stage Columbia affiliated startups achieve significant, sustainable growth. We offer cohort companies a unique set of value-adds including world-class mentorship, access to VCs and investors, corporate perks, discounted legal access and more. Almaworks has graduated 90+ startups which have gone onto raise $45M+ and have graduated into YC, Techstars, and more and have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and prizes. Learn more at the Almaworks website and direct any questions to [email protected].

Apply at alma.works/apply by Monday, October 4th at 11:59pm

Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College Entrepreneurship Weekly Meetup (9/23, 6:30 to 8:00 PM)

Embracing Risk as an Entrepreneur: Drop by the Athena Entrepreneurs meetup on Thursday, September 23, 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Athena Center, Milstein 4th Floor to get to know other students interested in entrepreneurship and learn more about how you can embrace positive risk-taking as an entrepreneur.

Jennifer Perusini ‘10, head of BEnet (Barnard’s alum entrepreneur group) and co-founder and CEO of biotech startup Neurovation Labs, Inc.

Athena welcomes all women and non-binary aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs at Barnard and Columbia. No RSVP is required! Learn more about Athena Entrepreneurs at athenacenter.barnard.edu/eship

Athena Entrepreneurs | Athena Center for Leadership At Athena, we see entrepreneurship as a powerful way to build the world we want to inhabit. We take an approach to entrepreneurship that’s creative, collaborative, and conscious of impact, on others as well as on ourselves.

Interested in growing a tech or tech-driven startup while at Columbia? Attend an info session about the Columbia Technology Founders Track (CTech).

CTech is a selective, cross-disciplinary program open to second-year MBA students with technical backgrounds and Columbia Engineering graduate students who are dedicated to launching startups.

Date/Time: Thurs, Sept 16 @ 12:30 pm
RSVP: https://columbia.startuptree.co/event/s/AQN4v9Gcd69qwjUvZbrU5R/CTech-Information-Session-2021-22-%2528for-technical-founders%2529 The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School

Do you have a new venture idea addressing a problem affecting people or the planet? Do you want to reinvent or improve an existing business venture doing so? Are you looking to join one of these teams?

The 2021 Hacking for Humanity Hackathon is designed to harness Columbia’s talent and energy to tackle global problems and crowdsource innovative solutions with a compelling business model. Participate in this Hackathon and register now as a founder or a team member.

Dates: Friday, September 10 - Sunday, September 12
More info: bit.ly/Hack4Humanity-CU

Columbia Engineering

#Hack4HumanityCU Columbia unites to propel early stage ventures addressing problems affecting people and the planet.

Interested in tapping into the entrepreneurship ecosystem? Entrepreneurs, students, developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts are invited to join the Founders Marketplace today to connect -- whether you have an opportunity to offer or are seeking to join a team or project! Click below for more information.

https://columbia.startuptree.co/discover/forum/

Hosted by the Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School ([email protected])

Forum | Columbia University