Columbia Entrepreneurship

Artists Using Data, Talk Series | Luke DuBois: “Sex, Lies, and Data Mining”
2018-03-01 10:30 - 11:30 UTC
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prentis Hall Rm 101
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
2018-03-01
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (“the Fund”) provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Preference will be given to start-up ventures that have the potential to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term.
Read more about the criteria and process HERE.
For questions, please reach out to tamersvfund@gmail.com.

Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making - A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science
2018-02-27 11:00 - 12:15
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
11:00AM-12:15PM
CEPSR 414, DAVIS AUDITORIUM

“Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making – A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science”
New instrument technologies are enabling a new generation of in-situ and in-operando experiments, with extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution, that allows researchers to observe as physics, chemistry and biology are happening. These new methodologies go hand in hand with an exponential growth in data volumes and rates – petabyte scale data collections and terabyte/sec. At the same time, scientists are pushing for a paradigm shift. As they can now observe processes in intricate details, they want to analyze, interpret and control those processes. Given the multitude of voluminous, heterogenous data streams involved in every single experiment, novel real-time, data-driven analysis and decision support approaches are needed to realize their vision. This talk will discuss state-of-the-art streaming analysis for experimental facilities, its challenges and early successes. It will present work currently carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory and identify areas for collaboration.
Kerstin Kleese van Dam is the director of the Computational Science Initiative (CSI) at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in Long Island, NY. With 100 petabytes, BNL hosts the second largest scientific data archive in the US and the fourth largest in the world, it processes annually in access of 400 petabytes of scientific results.
CSI conducts leading edge computer science and applied mathematics research to address the associated analysis challenges, specific focus areas are machine learning, visual analytics and programming models.

Before she joined BNL Kerstin was associated division director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Director of Computing at University College London Medical School and Data Management Group Lead at the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK.

Hosted by Prof. Steven Nowick (Dept. of Computer Science)

The Future of Investing: Fintech NYC
2018-02-22 18:30 - 19:00
Join Dean Mary C. Boyce, Professor Xunyu Zhou and Addepar CEO, Eric Poirier (SEAS ’04) as they discuss how new advances in technology are transforming traditional investing practices. Is Artificial Intelligence or Intelligence Augmentation the answer to making better financial decisions? Zhou and Poirier are two experts offering insight on the breakthroughs taking place and shaping the future of the finance industry and beyond.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
383 Madison Ave.
12th Floor Conference Center
New York, NY 10017
6:30 p.m. doors | 7:00 p.m. discussion
8:30 p.m. networking reception
Tickets are $10
Includes beer, wine, and heavy hors d’oeuvres
REGISTER HERE

DEADLINE: Columbia Venture Competition
2018-02-22
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PIECE OF $200,000
APPLY HERE
This year the Columbia Venture Competition (CVC) has four challenges but you may only enter one. The descriptions, rules, and eligibility guidelines are listed below. Each challenge will split $50,000 among the top three winners. Three of the challenges are open to students and recent alumni (five years or less from their most current Columbia degree) from any Columbia-affiliated school, including Barnard and Teachers College. The Undergraduate Challenge, sponsored by Columbia College, is open to all current Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies, and Barnard College undergrads. CVC judges will come from Columbia’s worldwide alumni community from Beijing to Brooklyn and will represent diverse backgrounds and a wide-ranging set of expertise. START YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES NOW. THE ONLINE COMPETITION PLATFORM OPENS ON FEBRUARY 10, SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 22.
APPLY

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-02-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2018-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL IN THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

The American Bionics Project: Promoting Revolutionary Technology for People with Disabilities
2018-02-20 18:00 - 20:00
Facilitated by Steven Galeazzi ’10BUS
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio
Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive, Room 430
New York, NY 10027
RSVP →
Refreshments included with RSVP
There is a gap between the needs of people with physical disabilities in the United States and the solutions available to meet those needs. What if technologies for people with physical disabilities could be profitable while also helping those in need? What if they could be designed not only to serve people with disabilities, but also to spur innovation for broader consumer markets?
By providing early stage funding and business advisement, The American Bionics Project will serve as the catalyst for advanced technologies and medical solutions for people with physical disabilities.
Join this spark workshop to help The American Bionics Project explore resources, connections, and potential solutions to help their social venture.

Data for Good
2018-02-20 17:30 - 19:30
LOCATION
Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
February 20, 2018
Reception: 5:30pm-6:30pm
Talk: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Every field has data. We use data to discover new knowledge, to interpret the world, to make decisions, and even to predict the future. The recent convergence of big data, cloud computing, and novel machine learning algorithms and statistical methods is causing an explosive interest in data science and its applicability to all fields. This convergence has already enabled the automation of some tasks that better human performance. The novel capabilities we derive from data science will drive our cars, treat disease, and keep us safe. At the same time, such capabilities risk leading to biased, inappropriate, or unintended action. The design of data science solutions requires both excellence in the fundamentals of the field and expertise to develop applications which meet human challenges without creating even greater risk.
The Data Science Institute at Columbia University promotes “Data for Good”: using data to address societal challenges and bringing humanistic perspectives as—not after—new science and technology is invented. Started in 2012, the Institute is now a university-level institute representing over 250 affiliated faculty from 12 different schools across campus. Data science literally touches every corner of the university.
In this talk, Jeannette Wing, Director of the Data Science Institute, will present the vision on how the Institute plans to address some of the key challenges and opportunities of data science, highlighting educational and research activities, as well as future initiatives that may directly impact the data science community at Columbia, New York City, and beyond.

Data for Good
2018-02-16 12:00 - 13:30
OPEN TO ALL

Friday, February 16, 2018
12:00PM-1:30PM
CEPSR 750

In this talk, we discuss a systematic evaluation of the impact of financial regulations concerning the collateralization of derivative trades on systemic risk – a topic that has been vigorously discussed since the financial crisis in 2007/08. Experts often disagree on the efficacy of these regulations. Compounding this problem banks regard their trade data required for a full analysis as proprietary. We adapt a simulation technology combining advances in graph theory to randomly generate entire financial systems sampled from realistic distributions with a novel open source risk engine to compute risks in financial systems under different regulations. This allows us to consistently evaluate, predict and optimize the impact of financial regulations on all levels – from a single trade to systemic risk – before it is implemented. The resulting data set is accessible to contemporary data science techniques like data mining, anomaly detection and visualization. We find that collateralization reduces the costs of resolving a financial system in crisis, yet it does not change the distribution of those costs and can have adverse effects on individual participants in extreme situations.
Remote participants can register for online streaming in advance at:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/4e9e74be7f16abb08c34be5db4a05ad8
Jointly sponsored by the Data Science Institute and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Third Thursday Series | Startup A to Z
2018-02-15 17:30 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Thursday, February 15 (Mudd 524, 5:30pm) will feature Brandon Maier, who will cover “crafting your executive summary” as well as a number of other topics in Startup A to Z. Brandon Maier has extensive experience building financial and marketing strategies for startup companies. He has been part of two venture backed startup teams, including serving as Financial Controller for the Winklevoss-backed bitcoin exchange BitInstant and founding Jozii.com, a student-based job matching service which amassed over 100,000 student users in the United States.
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Artists Using Data, Talk Series | Gene Kogan: Machine Learning In the Composer's Future Toolkit
2018-02-15 10:30 - 11:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prentis Hall Rm 101
In this talk, Kogan reviews the evolving application of machine learning to computational and new media art, with an emphasis on audio, demonstrating how new approaches to software can augment and counterpoint the normal compositional process.

DEADLINE: Hult Prize Ivy
2018-02-14
Hult Prize has case competitions from the local to global scale, where the winning team will receive $1,000,000 seed capital to implement their idea to create impactful change. Hult Prize Ivy will be a division of the Hult Prize within the Ivy League allowing teams win Hult Prize Ivy’s several-thousand-dollar cash prize and fast-track into an 8-week Accelerator program in Castle in London to have the opportunity to pitch their idea at the United Nations and have the chance to compete to win the $1,000,000.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until March 14th 11:59pm. For more information, please feel free to visit www.HultPrizeIvy.org or www.HultPrize.org, or email info@hultprizeivy.com.

Startup Grind
2018-02-12 - 2018-02-14
OPEN TO ALL
With 5,000 founders and investors, more than 40 keynote and fireside sessions, and over 50 exhibiting startups, this is Startup Grind’s largest event ever. Current students receive a reduced price.
Check out the agenda here.

APPLICATIONS OPEN: Columbia Venture Competition
2018-02-10
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PIECE OF $200,000
APPLY HERE
This year the Columbia Venture Competition (CVC) has four challenges but you may only enter one. The descriptions, rules, and eligibility guidelines are listed below. Each challenge will split $50,000 among the top three winners. Three of the challenges are open to students and recent alumni (five years or less from their most current Columbia degree) from any Columbia-affiliated school, including Barnard and Teachers College. The Undergraduate Challenge, sponsored by Columbia College, is open to all current Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies, and Barnard College undergrads. CVC judges will come from Columbia’s worldwide alumni community from Beijing to Brooklyn and will represent diverse backgrounds and a wide-ranging set of expertise. START YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES NOW. THE ONLINE COMPETITION PLATFORM OPENS ON FEBRUARY 10, SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 20.
APPLY

Startup Law Studio Office Hours
2018-02-09 15:00 - 17:00
Are you a Columbia student or recent alum with a venture that could use some legal advice? The Law Studio will hold open office hours at the Design Studio (Room 430 at 490 Riverside Drive) on February 9 from 3-5pm – join us and get a check on your corporate hygiene.

She Opened the Door - Columbia University Women's Conference (Event)
2018-02-09 - 2018-02-11
OPEN TO COLUMBIA
In February, hundreds will convene at She Opened the Door for a weekend of celebrating, learning from, and expanding horizons with fellow Columbia alumnae who are making a difference in our world.
We look forward to welcoming back dozens of incredible alumnae to Columbia to speak at this event, including Abigail Disney ’87, ’94GSAS, A’Lelia Bundles ’76JRN, Claire Shipman ’86CC, ’94SIPA, and more.
On February 11, 2018 at 1:15 p.m., a livestream of the conversation with Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be available.
Check back here for more information and the livestream link.

DEADLINE: The Point 25 Initiative Spring Series Application
2018-02-04
The Point 25 Initiative matches the most promising women-led companies with amazing C-level Advisors for their Advisory Boards. The ‘Point 25’ name refers to the 0.25% equity incentive that an advisor often receives for serving in the role. It’s based on the belief that – while money is a large part of what determines the success of a company – having the right network of helpful and influential advisors can really propel a business forward. This is also an effort to facilitate advisory board roles for prominent leaders who wish to give back to the startup ecosystem.

Applications for the Point 25 Spring Series are now open!
APPLY HERE

Please share with women-led startups you’d recommend and ask them to cite your name on their application.
Help spread the word in your network using the links on Twitter and LinkedIn below.
C-Level professionals interested in being profiled at future events can express interest via the link on the website.

The deadline for entrepreneurs to apply is February 4. Applications will be reviewed and acceptances extended on a rolling basis.

Tamer Fund for Social Ventures Information Session
2018-01-30 18:30 - 19:30
6:30-7:30 p.m.
GSAPP Incubator
231 Bowery, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002
RSVP
*Refreshments provided from Tamer Fund portfolio venture Eat Offbeat with RSVP
Learn about upcoming Tamer Fund for Social Ventures deadlines and the application process, and network with other social and environmental venture teams. You will also hear from portfolio members Rachel Barnard, ’11GSAPP, founder, Young New Yorkers; Justin Garrett Moore, ’04GSAPP, advisor, Made in Brownsville; and Manal Kahi, ’15SIPA, co-founder, Eat Offbeat, as they share their ventures’ missions and experiences working with the center.
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Funding is made available to around seven ventures each year.
To be eligible, ventures must be led by Columbia University students, alumni, faculty or researchers, or be advised and have significant involvement by Columbia University faculty or researchers.

The Transparency Series - Series 5, Networks (Seminar)
2018-01-27 17:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
MORE INFO
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The world is a complicated place, and sometimes it’s not the things themselves that’s the story, but the connections between the things. two speakers whose projects transform these connections between things into first-rate journalism. The first is Kevin Connor, the director of the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) and co-founder of LittleSis.org (think the opposite of Big Brother), an online wiki database tracking information on powerful people and organizations. Then we will hear from Mar Cabra, head of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Data & Research Unit. She led a global team from ICIJ analyzing the 11.5 million documents in the famed Panama Papers leak.

The Transparency Series - Series 5, Networks (Workshop)
2018-01-27 17:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO COLUMBIA JOURNALISM STUDENTS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
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In this installment, we will consider data that describe networks of people and organizations (often called “graphs”). These are structures that don’t fit easily into a spreadsheet — they encode relationships. Who knows who? Who worked for the same company? Who donated to or lobbied for which campaign? Who retweets who? These kinds of data let us connect the dots between people and organizations. Where are conflicts of interest? Can we track money or influence? On social media, can we see important “influencers” or visualize groups of people who share specific kinds of content?

Immigration and Entrepreneurship (Third Thursday Event Series)
2018-01-25 17:30 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Third Thursday is a recurring open forum and networking and info session for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community. It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.
Thursday, January 25 (technically Fourth Thursday instead of Third Thursday due to the late start of the semester) will feature Megan Kludt, an attorney at Curran & Berger, LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in all areas of immigration, including business, achievement, investment, family, and humanitarian bases for immigration status.
Megan is very knowledgable on visa options for students after graduation, and specializes in complex immigration cases in the areas of business, academia, scientific research, and the arts. Additionally, she was selected by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) to provide emergency legal aid to children at the US/Mexico border and was honored as one of AILA New England’s Pro Bono Champions in 2016.
Megan holds a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, a Master of International Relations from Boston University, and a JD with an international concentration from Boston University School of Law.
At this month’s Third Thursday event, Megan will discuss

Options and requirements for various visas, such as: J1, O-1B, and H-1B
Visa options and NYC/NYS immigration resources for foreign startup founders
How much of an impact a lawyer/representation has on a visa application
How to find out whether or not a startup is qualified to help employees file for work visas
The process of hiring and granting a visa for a non-USA citizen that just finished school in the USA
The STEM extension of the OPT for foreign entrepreneurs launching startups (non-employed by existing and EVerify companies)
Shareholding issues that may caused by the immigration status of foreign entrepreneurs in start-up companies

Join us!
​Register here​

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-01-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

Design Studio Open House
2018-01-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Friday, January 19th
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Design Studio (Riverside Church Room 430)
Want to learn more about the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? Stop by during our Open House to visit the space, meet our team, and learn more about how the Design Studio can help you in your projects, startup and life over the next year! Stop by anytime between 3 and 5pm; food and drink will be served.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.

Hod Lipson Fellowship Event
2018-01-18
INVITATION ONLY
WHAT: We’re hosting Dr. Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering and Data Science at SEAS who has graciously agreed to speak to us on the subject: AI: Why Now?
Why is AI suddenly taking off? What are the four exponential trends driving AI?
FROM OUR GUEST:
Artificial Intelligence technology has been making grand strides over the past few years, outperforming humans in tasks once thought to be impossible. Machines can now recognize images, interpret audio and understand language with unprecedented reliability. But where will this technology go next, and how far can it reach?
This talk outlines a brief history of AI, and its embodied cousin, Robotics. We will follow the field from its inception nearly a century ago, into its accelerating ascent in recent years, and look into the future.
AI is a beneficiary of several compounding exponential technologies. But unlike smooth progress observed in many other areas, AI progresses in distinct waves. Each wave leaps forward as a new fundamental capability is mastered, then lulls us into complacency until a wave washes over.
Hod Lipson is a professor of Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University in New York, and a co-author of the award winning book “Fabricated: The New World of 3D printing”, and of “Driverless: Intelligent cars and the road ahead”.
His work on self-aware and self-replicating robots challenges conventional views of robotics. Lipson directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative.
For more information visit http://hodlipson.com
We hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Society of Columbia Graduates

@Sree's Social Media One-Night Stand NYC
2018-01-17 17:00 - 21:00
You Asked. Sree Answered “Yes”
Sree’s Social Media One-Night Stand NYC Is Back! #sreetips
Join @Sree on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, for a dynamic and fun-filled night of learning.
This is one of a series of events produced by Sree with his longtime partners, Linda Bernstein (@wordwhacker) and Liz Borod Wright (@travelogged).
Time:
5:05 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.: [optional & complimentary with paid ticket] Sessions with the Social Media Doctors. Get help with your social profiles. Learn new phone photography tricks. Discover great apps that will make your social postings pop.
6:30 p.m to 9:45 p.m.: THE MAIN EVENT! Sree presents everything (or quite a bit) you need to know NOW about social media, apps and more. Watch for the surprise guest experts.
Place:
W83, 130 West 83rd St, New York, NY 10024 (btw Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues; the event is upstairs in the Loft Space; closest trains are: 1, C, B. Use this Google map link for directions.
Sree will share:

What’s working – and what isn’t in 2018 in social, apps and more.

Best practices that he learned while Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Columbia University (and his 21 years teaching at Columbia Journalism School)

How to cut through the noise using innovative tools and strategies.

Tips and tricks for reinventing yourself and job searching.

On-stage “How I social” with multiple social stars in various fields
Confirmed speakers include:
Gregory Galant, cofounder of Shorty Awards, MuckRack: @gregory
Niketa Patel of Twitter News: @niketa
Arun Venugopal, reporter and host, WNYC: @ArunNYC
Carla Zanoni, Editor of Audience & Analytics, WSJ: @CarlaZanoni

*ALSO INCLUDED WITH ADMISSION: Social Media Doctors!One-on-one and small group consultations with top experts will be available before Sree begins at 6:30 (and during the break).
Here’s what @TamarSatov tweeted about Sree’s workshops: “So glad I signed up for this @sree master class on #socialmedia. Best. Session. EVER!”
NOTE: Sree will be doing 40+ workshops in 20+ cities in 5+ countries in 2018. Sign up to hear more or to bring him to your town: http://bit.ly/sreelist3
AMONG THE CITIES IN THE WORKS:
NYC (multiple times a year + Social Media Weekend in June 2018), DC, LA, San Diego, San Fransisco, Philly, Chicago, Phoenix, Detroit, Tampa, Toronto, Austin (and counting)
COUNTRIES IN THE WORKS:
India, Ireland, Dominican Republic, UAE, Italy (and counting)
If you’d like to sponsor this or the other workshops around the world, please email sree@sree.net (SPONSORSHIP in the subject line)
There’s something for every professional in Sree’s dynamic lectures and gatherings.
ABOUT SREE: Sree Sreenivasan is a leading social and digital media consultant and trainer, working with nonprofits, startups, companies and executives around the world. He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years).
He has also been a paid on-air tech expert for the three largest news stations in NYC.
He taught a course on entrepreneurship at Columbia for four years with Ken Lerer, the co-founder of Huffington Post, chairman of Buzzfeed and co-founder of venture firm LererHippeau.
Sree is the creator of three popular social media learning opportunities that have been attended by thousands of attendees in NYC, several U.S. cities and more than a dozen countries: Social Media Weekend, Social Media Day and Social Media One-Night Stand (coming in June 2018 in NYC).
In 2015, Fast Company named him one of the 100 most creative people in business and in 2010, he was named one of the 35 most influential people in social media by the Poynter Institute. In 2014, he was named most influential CDO by CDO Club.
Be sure to join Sree’s Advanced Social Media FB Group.
Read his recent NYT guide to social media. Some articles on Sree: How to use social media in career transition:http://bit.ly/sree3oh3PBS Newshour feature on Sree’s journey: http://bit.ly/sree3oh10Fast Company: Most Creative 2015 profile: http://bit.ly/sreefcNYO on Sree as “The Twitter Tutor”: http://observer.com/2010/04/the-twitter-tutor/See also: Sree’s 5 TEDx videos.Twitter: @sree – http://twitter.com/sreeInstagram: @sreenet – http://instagram.com/sreenetFacebook: /sreenet and /sreetips – http://facebook.com/sreenetand http://facebook.com/sreetips
FAQs
Please explain ticket pricing.

Early bird price: $79 + processing fee = $85.46 (by 11:59 p.m. on December 24, 2017)

Discount: $89 + processing fee = $96.02 (by 11:59 on December 31, 2017)

Final pre-event price: $99 + processing fee = $106.57 (11:50 p.m. on January 16 2017)

At the door: $150 + processing fee = $160.41, if any tickets remain

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
W83 is easily accessible from the 1 Train West 86th Street or West 79th Street stops, the C or B Train West 81st Street stop, the M7, M11, M10, and M 104 bus lines. There are a couple of parking garages on West 83rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Click here for a Google map link. Or be like Sree and walk!
What can I bring into the event? Please bring dinner, something to drink, and snacks as the class is long and fast-paced, and many of you will be beginning your evening with the Social Media Doctors. There is a Lenwich sandwich shop on Columbus Avenue between 83rd-W84th Street and a convenience store on the northwest corner of West 83rd and Columbus Avenue. Take-out food is available at many of the restaurants in the neighborhood; Pizza, crepes, tacos and bagels can all be found nearby.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
You can contact us through the Eventbrite or tweet questions to @wordwhacker or @travelogged.
Is my registration/ticket transferrable? Yes, if you inform us by 1/7/2018. Tickets are not refundable.
What is the event hashtag?
#SreeTips
Can I purchase a ticket for someone as a gift?
YES! YES! YES! Change someone’s life with a ticket to this event. Let us know, and we’ll announce it.
Should I spread the word?
YES! YES! YES! Let your friends know on all your social networks. Here’s a sample tweet:
>>> What you’ve been waiting for: @Sree’s Social Media One Night Stand NYC on 1/17/2018. For info & tickets: bit.ly/sreell2018 #sreetips <<<

Design Your Future Applications Open
2018-01-15
Apply Here
Applications Open: January 15
Applications Close: January 29, 11:59pm
Accepted Applicants Notified: February 5, by 5pm
The future can feel uncertain, so we’ve created Design Your Future as a three-session program where students learn to apply human-centered design to their careers and to life after graduation. The goal of this program to help you to better navigate your career and life choices in the face of this uncertainty.
Design Your Future is designed for graduate students who are nearing the end of their studies and preparing to launch out into the world. This can be both an exciting and unnerving time. What if you discover that your new job isn’t for you? What happens if you start to drift away from the things you feel passionate about? Many recent graduates feel stuck after leaving school.
Dates and Times:
February 13th — 11:00am to 1:00pm
February 20th — 11:00am to 1:00pm
February 27th — 11:00am to 1:00pm
March 6th — 11:00am to 1:00pm

Steve Blank and Avril Haines on How Students Can Keep Their Country Safe
2018-01-10 18:30 - 21:00 | Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy

An evening in conversation with
Lean Startup Pioneer and Columbia Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship
Steve Blank
and Former Deputy National Security Advisor
Avril Haines
Moderated by Bloomberg View Columnist
Justin Fox

Wine & Networking Reception Following the Talk
Can university students keep our country safe and secure? Can they solve refugee problems, make energy solutions better, and make nonprofits work better to improve the social good?
Come hear how the Hacking for X classes are doing just that with the Department of Defense, State Department, Department of Energy, and nonprofits.
The courses, such as Hacking for Defense, Hacking for Diplomacy, Hacking for Energy, and Hacking for Impact, are a series of classes adopted by universities across the nation to solve critical real-world problems and give students a new platform for participating in national service.
Join Lean Startup pioneer Steve Blank, creator of the Hacking for X series of classes, in conversation with Avril Haines, former White House Deputy National Security Advisor and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, for a provocative discussion of how proven tools for innovation can be successfully applied to complex problems inside our national defense structure.

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Columbia University Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship Steve Blank is a retired eight-time serial entrepreneur-turned-educator and author. He has changed the way entrepreneurs around the world build their startups. His bestselling The Startup Owner’s Manual, and his earlier seminal work, The Four Steps to the Epiphany are both credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. His Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia has redefined how Universities approach entrepreneurship. His Innovation Corps class for the National Science Foundation forever changed how the U.S. commercializes science.
Avril D. Haines is currently a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and served as the Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. Before joining the NSC, she led the Treaty office at the Department of State, was the Deputy Chief Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, worked for The Hague Conference on Private International Law, and served as a law clerk for Judge Danny Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Avril received a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Chicago, a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and founded and ran a bookstore café for five years while engaged in community service in Baltimore.
Justin Fox is a columnist for Bloomberg View, writing about business. He started there in January 2015, after serving as editorial director and executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2009, and the Amazon.com editors’ choice as the best business book of that year. Before joining HBR in 2010, he wrote a weekly column for Time and created the Curious Capitalist blog for Time.com. Previously, Fox spent more than a decade as a writer and editor at Fortune magazine, and worked at several newspapers. He has appeared frequently on radio and TV, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and written for The Atlantic and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. He has been a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, son, and dog.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: SIPA Entrepreneurship Fellows
2017-12-22
Open to all young NYC entrepreneurs working full time on startup venturs.
Apply here.
The SIPA Entrepreneurship Fellows program is for young entrepreneurs with an interest at the intersection of digital technology, entrepreneurship and public policy working in the key areas of 1) Education Tech 2) New Technologies of Currency 3) Urban Innovation and Civic Tech 4) Internet of Things and 5) Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Who can apply: The Fellowship is intended for young entrepreneurs who are working full time on startup ventures in New York City and can commit throughout either the Fall or Spring semester for Fellowship-related activities. The Fellowship will start in the Spring semester (January – May) 2018.
Fellows can apply using this form: https://goo.gl/forms/Qv5bcvT1TdQvgat1 until December 22nd.
For questions, please contact Dr. Hollie Russon Gilman hr2377@columbia.edu

Application Deadline: TigerLaunch
2017-12-22
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
APPLY HERE
TigerLaunch, Princeton’s national, student-run entrepreneurship competition, is accepting applications until December 15th. Applicants from all over the country have the chance to be invited to TigerLaunch Regional Competitions to pitch their startups, with $30,000 in prize money on the line.
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Timeline
Round 1:
Teams across the country submit applications detailing their ideas or existing products/services. Winners are paired with mentors and resources and invited to regional competitions. Deadline: Dec 15
Round 2:
12 teams are invited to each of 3 regional events to present their products and any updates since December, pitching their MVPs and pitching business plans. Winners are invited to the final Demo Day at Princeton campus. Date: February to March
Round 3:
In April, finalists from each region network with VCs and entrepreneurs and compete for prizes and exclusive opportunities. Date: April 13-14
