Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Ups

Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]

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Deadline: Nucleate Activator Program

Are you an academic trainee (Post-doc/Ph.D./MBA/MD/JD) interested in building life science startups? Are you passionate about therapeutics, diagnostics, medtech, or synthetic biology? Apply to Nucleate’s activator program! Nucleate is a student-run nonprofit organization that facilitates the formation of new life science ventures.

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Application Deadline: Design for Social Innovation Spring 2022

Applications are now open for the Spring 2022 Design For Social Innovation course! Taught by Sarah Holloway, Lecturer at the School of International Public Affairs and Adam Royalty, Designer in Residence at Columbia Entrepreneurship's Design Studio, DFSI is a semester-long course where Columbia University students and faculty support social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and the public […]

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Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Up

Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]

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The Wrangler

Learn more What is The Wrangler? It is a "choose your own adventure" of unique skills workshops — it is 2 days, each divided into 90 minute to 2-hour sessions. At any point there will be 3 workshops running in parallel and you decide which courses you are going to attend.

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Columbia Life Science Accelerators: Call for Pre-Proposals

The pre-proposal period is open for Therapeutics/Cancer Therapeutics/Drug Development - Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT) & Translational Therapeutics Resource (TRx); and Medical Technologies/Devices/Software/Coordination of Care/Remote Medicine - Biomedical Engineering Technology Accelerator (BiomedX formerly Columbia-Coulter program). Applicants must have a full-time faculty appointment, and at least one of the lead investigators should be from Columbia University. Graduate […]

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CORE Founderschool

Interested in learning about entrepreneurship? Student entrepreneurship group CORE is running Founderschool, a peer-led class on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Over the course of the semester, you'll learn how to determine the viability of your idea, how to build a minimum viable product, how to conduct the customer discovery process, how to do market analysis, […]

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Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Up

Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]

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Fast Pitch Competition

Fast Pitch is Columbia’s campus-wide annual elevator pitch (similar to Shark Tank) competition where students and teams have 60 seconds to sell their business ideas to a panel of judges to win up to $5,000 for their idea. Teams are judged on their appeal, conciseness, and completeness. Register for Fast Pitch 2021 updates.

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