Resources

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Startup accelerator Y Combinator dives into how companies can tell their stories through slides.

More advice from Y Combinator, given to teams preparing for a pitch day.

Columbia Prof and Techstars Managing Director Jenny Fielding explains how to stay organized.

Learn how to do your market research and “get out of the building” from Lean Launchpad creator Steve Blank.

Alexander Osterwalder’s classic template for planning out your company’s business strategy.

Y Combinator dives into the fundamentals of starting up.

In an interview with First Round, Columbia alum and Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta talks about knowing when to pull from established playbooks versus beginning from first principles.

A list of NYC Tech Events.

Keep up with the latest news on the NYC entrepreneurship scene.

NPR dives into the stories of some of today’s best-known companies.

Wherever you are in your startup journey, Columbia 
can help you make the most of your 
time while an enrolled student on campus. Columbia Startup Lab (CSL) Uptown, located on the Morningside campus, provides a host of campus-wide programming, open working space, mentorship, and connection to other entrepreneurship nodes around the University for aspiring student founders currently enrolled at Columbia and Barnard.

The Columbia Startup Lab in SoHo is Columbia’s alumni entrepreneur coworking space, is headquarters to 71 alumni entrepreneurs each year have raised over $175M in funding and $115M in acquisitions since it launched in 2014.

The Makerspace is a Columbia University run workshop that provides a wide variety of tools such as laser cutters and 3D printers for students, artists, makers, creatives, programmers, scientists, and engineers to use, and provide a space in which they can work, share ideas, and collaborate. It is open to all current undergraduates, master’s students, university sponsored researchers, PhD candidates, university faculty, and university staff.

Welcome to the Columbia University Libraries research guide on entrepreneurship.

A growing list of clubs at Columbia that are dedicated to entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovation, and related topics.

Columbia Engineering’s dedicated resource.

Barnard’s dedicated resource for entrepreneurs.

Encouraging entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the Institute’s faculty and staff who are interested in starting companies is an important component of DSI’s mission and has emerged as a central educational theme within Columbia Engineering.

Columbia Business School’s Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center [The Lang Center] powers entrepreneurship, venture capital, and innovation at Columbia Business School and in the global entrepreneurial community.

The Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School educates leaders to use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges.

Representing the start-ups of low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs and fledgling businesses, Columbia Law students develop substantive knowledge and transactional lawyering skills by serving as pro bono counsel.

Engaging scholars, entrepreneurs, and technology, Entrepreneurship & Policy @ SIPA explores avenues to shape policy in the public and private sector.

Established in 2012, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute is a collaboration between Columbia University and Stanford University, designed to encourage and support new endeavors in media innovation.

The MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia is a 22-week program focused on driving business growth and accelerated market penetration.

As a platform for entrepreneurship and expanded modes of practice, the Incubator Prize supports projects led by GSAPP alumni that bridge critical discourse with active practice and engagement.

The Columbia Healthcare Ventures (CHV) aims to empower the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. It strives to inspire future leaders through collaboration with experts and pioneers to create innovative and sustainable solutions that will address pressing challenges in the healthcare landscape.

Startups present an attractive opportunity to build skills and cultivate networks. The Center for Career Education can help you get involved.

The Center for Spatial Research was established in 2015 as a hub for urban research that links design, architecture, urbanism, the humanities and data science.

If you’re faculty and/or work at a Columbia research lab, check out Columbia Technology Ventures: CTV’s core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis.

A cross-discipline support system providing tactical and strategic guidance to the Columbia-affiliated accelerators in therapeutics, biomedical technology, clean energy, media, advanced materials, big data, cybersecurity, and more. The network includes:

Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx)

Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT)

Biomedical Engineering Technology Accelerator (BioMedX)

NYC Media Lab

Cyber NYC Inventors to Founders

Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency