Columbia Entrepreneurship

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.
More information

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

VC Funding for Life Sciences in NYC (Event)
2017-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
6 to 8 pm
Davis Auditorium of Columbia University
530 W 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
RSVP and Directions Here
Join Harlem Biospace for a panel discussion on VC funding for life sciences in NYC! Panelists include representatives from a life science angel investor group, a venture capital firm, and a pharmaceutical company.

The Future of Investing: Enhance Human Intelligence or Replace It?
2017-12-05 18:30 - 21:00
OPEN TO COLUMBIA ALUMNI AND RESEARCHERS
Columbia Engineering researchers and alumni are leading the way through the fintech revolution.
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.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Four Seasons Palo Alto
2050 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94303
6:30 p.m. doors | 7:00 p.m. discussion
8:00-9:00 p.m. networking reception

$15
includes beer, wine and heavy hors d’oeuvres

Beyond Blockchain - Emerging Markets for Decentralized Applications
2017-12-04 18:00 - 20:30
By invitation only, but livestream is available here.
Monday, December 4th
6:00-8:30 pm
Hosted by Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall
2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027
6:00-7:00 pm: Reception
7:00-8:30 pm: Program and Q+A
Speakers:
Siddhartha Dalal, Ph.D. is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Prior to joining Columbia he was Chief Data Scientist and Senior Vice President at AIG in charge of R&D that included creation and application of AI, Statistics and CS to Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Sensors/IOT for managing risks. He came to AIG from RAND Corporation where he was the CTO. Dalal also was Vice President of Research at Xerox, overseeing their worldwide imaging and software services research, and Bell Labs and Bellcore/SAIC as Chief Scientist and Executive Director. Dalal has an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and monographs covering the areas of risk analysis, medical informatics Bayesian statistics and economics, image processing, and sensor networks. At Rand he was responsible for the creation of technology and spinning-off of Praedicat, Inc., a casualty insurance analytics company. Dalal is a member of US Army Science Board, an advisory board of 20 scientists appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to advise the U.S. Army on technology. He has received several awards including from IEEE, ASA, and ASQ.
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Chris Dannen is a founder and principal of the Iterative Capital management company, which manages three pooled vehicles: Iterative Instinct Fund I, L.P., i2 Storj SPV, LP and Iterative Mining, LLC. Prior to founding the Investment Manager, Mr. Dannen was an independent strategy consultant. He has engaged clients including Bloomberg LP and Atlantic Media Group.
At Bloomberg, Mr. Dannen worked with the infrastructure engineering team to collect ethnographic research from senior engineers, to be used in strategic recruiting. At Quartz, he worked with the Senior Director of Branded Content in order to come up with market-focused enterprise software content franchises in conjunction with senior marketers at HP and Hitachi.
Before consulting independently, Mr. Dannen was a Senior Strategist at Undercurrent LLC, a 30-person management consulting company which was acquired in 2015. During his time at Undercurrent, Mr. Dannen developed long-term technology-focused business tactics for C-suite clients at American Express, General Electric, and Pepsico.
At Fast Company magazine Mr. Dannen served as senior technology editor for two years, launching a content vertical aimed at engineers, and building out a nationwide e-commerce hackathon sponsored by Target.
Mr. Dannen began his career as a technology reporter for CBS News covering publicly-traded enterprise software companies. He has authored four books. A self-taught programmer, Mr. Dannen holds one provisional patent on a computing hardware device for blockchain video distribution, filed Mar 8, 2016 number US 62/299,493.
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Meltem Demirors is the Director of Development at DCG and serves as the “connective tissue” between our subsidiaries, portfolio companies, investors, and corporate partners and is focused on creating new models for partnership and growth. A former management consultant and finance professional, Meltem has built several early stage companies and is an expert in crafting strategy, facilitating and building complex stakeholder groups, and developing new business models and sales strategies. Meltem has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Mathematical Economics from Rice University.
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Joseph Lubin is a Canadian entrepreneur and a co-founder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum, a decentralized application platform incorporating a virtual machine that executes peer-to-peer contracts paid for via micropayments of the cryptocurrency ether. He is the founder of Consensus Systems, a Brooklyn-based software studio building decentralized applications. ConsenSys is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in blockchain.
Joe graduated from Princeton with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab, at tomandandy music developing an autonomous music composition tool, , and at private research firm Vision Applications Inc. building autonomous mobile robots.
As a software engineer and consultant, Joe worked with eMagine on the Identrus project, and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner.
Switching gears, Joe moved to Kingston, Jamaica to work on projects in the music industry. Two years into his musical endeavors, Joe co-founded the Ethereum Project, and has been working on Ethereum and ConsenSys since January 2014.
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Joshua Ashley Klayman, J.D. is Of Counsel in the Financial Transactions Group and is a founding member and the head of MoFo’s Blockchain + Smart Contracts Group. Ms. Klayman is resident in the New York office and is a member of the firm-wide Women’s Strategy Committee, as well as Co-Chair of the New York Women’s Affinity Group. Ms. Klayman’s practice focuses on finance and corporate matters. In her finance practice, Ms. Klayman regularly represents lenders and borrowers in leveraged finance transactions involving senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt and equity offerings and co-investments, as well as in general lending matters. In her corporate practice, Ms. Klayman represents public and private organizations in a broad array of commercial transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, as well as royalty purchase and licensing transactions) and corporate governance matters.
Ms. Klayman has served for several years as an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she has taught “U.S. Business Planning for International Transactions,” a capstone seminar for J.D. and L.L.M. candidates. At Morrison & Foerster, Ms. Klayman is active in diversity recruiting efforts and is the founder and serves as the senior advisor for MoFo’s Pro Bono name change practice assisting low-incomed transgender men and women. She also Chairs the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance’s Legal Working Committee and is a member of the Steering Committee for the New York City Opera. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Klayman served as Corporate Consultant, Global Accounts for a global, publicly traded organizational consulting and career transition firm and as Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Special Projects for a nationally recognized political watchdog group based in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Klayman received her J.D., cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was a Law Faculty Scholar and a member of the Temple Law Review. Ms. Klayman received her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Klayman is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania, and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Gillian Tett serves as US managing editor, leading the Financial Times’editorial operations in the region across all platforms. She writes weekly columns for the Financial Times, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues throughout the globe.
Ms. Tett previously served as assistant editor, U.S. managing editor from 2010-2012, and prior to this as assistant editor responsible for the Financial Times’ markets coverage. Her other roles at the Financial Timeshave included capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
Ms. Tett’s latest book The Silo Effect, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2015, looks at the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology.
She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool’s Goldwon Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009.
Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Ms. Tett was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the Ph.D., she freelanced for the Financial Times and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Global Social Venture Competition
2017-12-04
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
GSVC is a social entrepreneurship competition hosted by UC Berkeley, along with Georgia Tech as their Eastern Region partner. There is no entry fee, no travel, and no in-person presentation required until the finals. For the finals, our sponsors fund your travel to UC Berkeley to present your business for $80,000 in prizes.
First Round submissions are due on December 4th. Click here for more details on GSVC!

Additional details for the competition are below.

Team Entry Requirements:

Your team must include a student, current or recent graduate, from any level of higher education (undergraduate, masters level/graduate, or doctoral) in any area of study in the world;
No entry fee
No limit to the number of applicants from a particular program or university
Full Eligibility Requirements here

Competition Benefits:

Global Reach – In 2017, the GSVC received over 600 entries from prestigious schools in 65 countries
Collaboration – Teams are encouraged to collaborate with professionals, seasoned entrepreneurs, and students from other schools
Networking – The competition introduces early-stage social venture entrepreneurs to the investment community. Nearly 25% of past GSVC entrants are now operating companies
Prizes – Since its inception, the GSVC has awarded more than a quarter of a million dollars to emerging social ventures

Competition Structure and Deadlines:

Executive Summary, Concept Deck and Interviews submitted online (12/4/17, hosted by Georgia Tech)
Semi-Finals materials submitted online (2/17/18, hosted by Georgia Tech)
Regional Finals (3/9/18, hosted by Georgia Tech)
Global Finals presentations (4/11/18–4/13/18, hosted in Milan)

The Transparency Series - Series 4, Illustration (Workshop)
2017-12-03 10:00 - 17:00
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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Journalistic outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Nautilus use illustration as an important part of its content. A strong visual will draw a reader to a story. In this day long workshop, Ellen Weinstein, world-renowned illustrator and frequent contributor to many publications, will introduce basic visual thinking skills that will lead you through visualizing a story from text. How do you employ visual metaphors without being cliché? How do you create visual empathy with a subject? When is humor appropriate? During the day, we will create, discuss and think about word and image, not as separate entities but as halves of a whole.

The Transparency Series - Series 4, Illustration (Panel)
2017-12-02 17:00
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.
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Word and image work together to produce beautifully told stories. Metaphor, humor and empathy are powerful visual tools to further engage a reader. Join us in the Brown Institute for a Friday night panel discussion with Andrew Horton, Alissa Levin, and Victor Juhasz on illustration as it relates to journalism. The panel will be moderated by Ellen Weinstein, who will conduct the Illustration workshop on Saturday.

DEADLINE: Project Entrepreneur
2017-12-01
Calling all Female Founders: Apply now for a chance to join the Project Entrepreneur Class of 2018 and attend the PE Intensive in NYC. 5 Winners will receive a $10,000 grant and a spot in the 5-week accelerator program hosted at Rent the Runway.
projectentrepreneur.org/apply
Project Entrepreneur is on a mission to increase the number of women building high-growth, economically impactful companies. Launched by Rent the Runway Foundation in partnership with UBS, Project Entrepreneur is a national initiative providing women access to the tools, training and networks to build scalable companies. #WhatWillYouBuild?

DEADLINE: Pre-proposals for Life Science Lab-to-Market Resources
2017-12-01
OPEN TO COLUMBIANS
Project funding, education and support for interdisciplinary teams working to advance innovative ideas with the potential to positively impact health outcomes.
Accelerator programs aim to catalyze innovation via support to interdisciplinary engineer / scientist / clinician teams, with the goal of increasing the potential for private investment towards continued product development, clinical testing, and, ultimately, improved patient care and healthcare outcomes.
Selected teams work closely with business, legal, and regulatory experts to define commercially-relevant hypotheses for research towards technical and business proof-of-concepts.
PRE-PROPOSALS are due by FRIDAY, DEC 1, 2017.
APPLY TO: THERAPEUTICS / DRUG DEVELOPMENT

Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT)
Translational Therapeutics Resource (TRx)

APPLY TO: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES / DEVICES

Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (BioMedX; formally Columbia-Coulter)

Developing Your Fashion Tech Product
2017-11-30 18:00 - 21:00
In partnership with the NY Fashion Tech Lab, Stacklist is thrilled to host its next founder panel on November 30th. They have curated this conversation to help provide insight and advice to entrepreneurs who are building a physical or digital product at the intersection of fashion and technology.
They’ll speak with founders about how they have tested their ideas, validated product-market fit, analyzed the B2B vs. B2C market opportunity, developed partnerships, and brought their product to market.
Join for a conversation, drinks & startup networking.
Panelists
Alexandra Wood (@alexcwood): COO, Wearable X
Matt Hornbuckle (@stanttbrand): Co-founder & CEO, Stantt
Nadia Boujarwah (@NBoujarwah): Co-founder & CEO, Dia&Co
Veronika Harbick (@SMczarina): Co-founder & CEO, Thursday Finest
Moderator
This panel will be moderated by Andrea Wasserman (@andreawass). Andrea is a consumer sector leader and entrepreneur with a background in both stores and e-commerce. In her leadership roles at Nordstrom, Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor (among others), her focus has been the “new” and using it drive sales and build long-term brands. She continues to focus on innovation through CAPTAIN CUSTOMER, LLC, her platform for advising B2B and B2C on retail, tech, customer experience, marketing, and merchandising.
About NY Fashion Tech Lab
The New York Fashion Tech Lab is a community-driven, relationship building, collaboration, and business development platform. The nonprofit program was co-founded by Springboard Enterprises and key fashion retailers to support women-led companies that have developed innovations at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology.
Schedule:
6:30- 6:50: Drinks & Networking
6:50-7:50: Panel
7:50-8:15: Audience Q&A
8:15-9:00: More drinks & networking

Design Workshop: Fundamentals of User Research
2017-11-29 15:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
REGISTER HERE
One of the core tenets of human centered design is understanding the needs of others. The ability to uncover and solve unmet needs is something all successful startups do well. Additionally, this acute awareness of users has been proven to drive innovation and creativity in more traditional settings.
Join us in this introductory sprint to learn how to use design tools, including interviewing, analogous spaces, empathy probes, and more. By the end of the sprint, you will have practiced these tools to understand communities and pinpoint areas of opportunity for entrepreneurship. This workshop will be incredibly helpful for students who will use the holiday break to conduct in-depth field research for a capstone project.
This sprint is hands-on and fast paced! Come with your own idea or we will provide you with a topic to research. This event is open to all Columbia affiliates.
Wednesday, November 29th
3:00pm-5:00pm
Design Studio, 490 Riverside Drive, Room 430

Harlem Biospace Presents: Riverside Chat @ Columbia University
2017-11-21 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL
Government Support for Life Sciences in NYC
Tuesday, November 21st
6 to 8 pm
Davis Auditorium of Columbia University
530 W 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
RSVP and Directions Here
One year ago, Mayor De Blasio announced $500 million for life-science initiatives in New York City, and every year SBA administers SBIR/STTR grants in the range of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars each.
Hear first-hand and ask your questions about these exciting initiatives to government representatives from the city (NYCEDC) and federal government (SBA).

Design + Serious Play: Building a Stronger Columbia Community Design Thinking Workshop
2017-11-20 19:30 - 21:30
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
Design + Serious Play: Building a Stronger Columbia Community Design Thinking Workshop
Monday, November 20 | 6:30pm, Lerner Satow Room
CORE is partnering with the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab to collaboratively answer the design question: “How might we create a Columbia community where every student can thrive?”
This workshop aims to approach Columbia’s putative empathy problem as a design question with design thinking, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® ideation, and storytelling/listening techniques.
Join us for an evening of intentional conversation, storytelling techniques, and serious play exercises you never knew you could do with LEGO® bricks. Walk away with a toolkit of techniques for empathy, radical listening, and design thinking.

The Transparency Series - Series 3, Virtual Reality (Workshop)
2017-11-19 10:00 - 17:00
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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The Virtual Reality workshop will take students who have little to no background in virtual reality and teach them the fundamentals of working in the medium. Journalists seeking to expand their storytelling beyond the still image and written word are encouraged to join. Selected participants will gain critical insights into emerging digital strategies in order to engage audiences across new immersive platforms.
The lab will commence with a discussion around exemplary case studies, and will then challeng participants to develop their own immersive story projects. Mixing theory with practice, participants will walk away from this lab with a concrete grasp of how they might integrate immersive storytelling into their practice and what that means for their subjects, audience, and impact.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: NYC Media Lab Combine
2017-11-19
OPEN TO ALL NYC UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED STARTUPS, STUDENTS, AND FACULTY
APPLY
Are you building a startup? Join NYC Media Lab’s Combine accelerator program to help take your idea to the next level and bring your startup to market. Participating teams will receive mentorship from leading media and technology executives and investors from NYC Media Lab Member Companies and up to $25,000 in funding. To date, 15 teams that have completed the Combine program have formed companies in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, VR/AR, and brain computer interfaces.
Eligibility: Faculty members, students (undergraduate and graduate), and/or existing startups affiliated with a NYC-based university are eligible to apply.
Award: Up to $25,000 per team
Application Deadline: Sunday, November 19th, 2017
Apply: http://www.thecombine.nyc/apply/

The Transparency Series - Series 3, Virtual Reality (Talk)
2017-11-18 17:00
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.
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Join the Brown Institute in welcoming Raney Aronson-Rath, Executive Producer at FRONTLINE, PBS to talk about virtual reality, and its role in how we tell stories. With the recent explosion of VR – specifically 360-degree video– journalistic outlets are hungry for quality documentary content for immersive platforms. While immersive media experiences have become increasingly prevalent in the gaming and entertainment industry, we are only beginning to explore them within the context of documentary photography and journalism. How can media makers use immersion as a tool to build empathy, engage communities, and forward social change? How does immersing your viewer in content change the nature of the story you are telling? And how does this mode of experiencing a story change how journalists approach the planning, creation, and distribution of stories?

NYSBPC Kickoff and Information Session (2 of 2)
2017-11-17 11:00 - 13:00
OPEN TO STUDENTS (UNDERGRAD AND GRAD) AT ACCREDITED NYC INSTITUTIONS
Register here.
The Kickoff celebration and information session for the Regionals for the New York State Business Plan Competition to be held on March 23, 2018 at LIU Brooklyn.
Read information about the 2017 competition here: http://apply.nybplan.com/
DATE AND TIME
Fri, November 17, 2017
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
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LOCATION

LIU- Brooklyn
1 University Plaza
Pratt 110
Brooklyn, NY 11201

NYSBPC Kickoff and Information Session (1 of 2)
2017-11-15 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO STUDENTS (UNDERGRAD AND GRAD) AT ACCREDITED NYC INSTITUTIONS
Register here.
The Kickoff celebration and information session for the Regionals for the New York State Business Plan Competition to be held on March 23, 2018 at LIU Brooklyn.
Read information about the 2017 competition here: http://apply.nybplan.com/
DATE AND TIME
Wed, November 15, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Add to Calendar
LOCATION

LIU- Brooklyn
1 University Plaza
Pratt 110
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Treating Psoriasis: What drives patients and caregivers to use treatment information websites? (Workshop)
2017-11-15 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Treating Psoriasis: What drives patients and caregivers to use treatment information websites?
Facilitated By Ashley Lim ’12CC,
Founder and CEO of CuraHub
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
6-8 p.m.
Refreshments included with RSVP
Uris Hall, Room 141
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Overview
CuraHub is a patient-friendly product search website for chronic disease patients, starting with patients suffering from psoriasis. Every year, over $60B is wasted from ineffective treatment for autoimmune diseases. CuraHub aims to lower costs and improve patient outcomes by empowering patients with knowledge and curating treatment product options directly for patients. Their vision is to help find optimal treatment for each and every patient.
Areas for discussion

Which consumer segments should CuraHub target?
What features are most valued by the target customers?
What makes online treatment information gain or lose credibility?

Facilitator Biography
Ashley Lim ’12CC, Founder and CEO of CuraHub
Ashley grew up close to her grandmother, who suffered health complications from obesity. This ignited Ashley’s interest in medical treatment and personal healthcare, which have become her lifelong passions. Her goal is to share this interest with others through CuraHub. CuraHub aims to empower patients with knowledge of treatments and to advance medical research.
Prior to CuraHub, Ashley worked in healthcare consulting at the Boston Consulting Group and Booz & Company. She has a BA in Chemistry from Columbia University, and is currently completing her MBA at Wharton.
Ashley reads the nutrition labels on all her food and counteracts the calories by dancing ballet and choreographing Kpop.

Startup DNA: The Genome Panel
2017-11-15 18:00 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
Startup DNA: The Genome Panel
Wednesday, November 15 | 6pm, Math 417
Join CORE as we welcome innovators in the genomics space: Mark Kaganovich is the co-founder and CEO of SolveBio. SolveBio deploys intelligent technologies and on-demand expertise to drive precision medicine.
Eugene Joseph is the co-founder and VP of Product Management & New Ventures at Phosphorus (phosphorus.com). Phosphorus Phosphorus is a computational genomics company with the vision to create a world where every healthcare decision is optimized with genomics.
Arun Manoharan is the Head of Bioinformatics at CooperGenomics. He is leading a team developing new techniques in carrier screening, PGD, PGS and single cell sequencing using advances in cloud computing, data science and machine learning.

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2017-11-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
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.

Fast Pitch Competition
2017-11-14 18:00 - 21:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS.
Do you have a startup idea? Do you want to get feedback from CU alumni? Come to the Columbia Engineering Fast Pitch Competition on Tuesday, November 14th at 5:30pm in Davis Auditorium. This is a great opportunity for you to give a brief 60-second pitch of your business to a panel of judges that includes successful Columbia alumni and members of the NYC venture community. You’ll have the chance to win money to fund your business or idea! There will be a $2000 prize pool solely for undergraduates and a $3000 pool for the best overall pitches. Find out more details here.
Register to pitch: https://goo.gl/forms/wLzGxprCe2YJQhPv1
Event timeline:
Oct 27: Fast Pitch Prep https://seasfastpitchprep2017.eventbrite.com
*Optional
Oct 30: Video pitches (drafts) due at midnight
​ https://platform.younoodle.com/client/entry-rounds/fast_pitch_video_2017_2018/apply
*Optional, teams who submit videos given feedback and priority to live pitch event
Nov 11: Feedback on videos
Nov 14: Fast Pitch Competition, 5:30PM Davis Auditorium​

Register to watch: https://seasfastpitch2017.eventbrite.com
Video submissions are due by October 30th at midnight; those who submit a video will be given priority to pitch.
Good luck!

CORE & Lean In: What It Takes to Be a Female Entrepreneur
2017-11-14 17:30 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
CORE & Lean In: What It Takes to Be a Female Entrepreneur
Tuesday, November 14 | 5:30pm, Broadway 14th Floor Lounge
Join us in Broadway Residence Hall’s 14th Floor Lounge to hear from Ali Kriegsman, founder of Bulletin, and a Columbia alum and student entrepreneur, to compare what it’s like to start a company as an undergraduate versus after graduation, and raise money for the Tory Burch Foundation.
RSVP with this link to reserve your seat & $15 Sweetgreen voucher (spots limited). Donate to the Tory Burch Foundation to support female entrepreneurship.

TechUp for Women
2017-11-14
An event for women’s advancement in technology.
November 14, 2017
@ Metropolitan Pavilion West, NYC

Tech Up for Women is a one-day event for the advancement of women in technology through education, resourcing and networking. The event will focus on new technological advances, cyber security and different financing avenues for startups and privately held companies. This event will provide resources and opportunities for women to improve their digital literacy and successfully compete and disrupt gender imbalance in work environments. The purpose of the event is to take the fear factor out of technology and empower women to surf the technology wave.

HeForShe x CORE Presents Kathy Leake
2017-11-13 20:00 - 21:00
HeForShe x CORE Presents Kathy Leake
Monday, November 13 | Hamilton 306, 8pm
Join HeForShe and CORE for an engaging event with Kathy Leake. As CEO, Co-Founder & Chairwoman of Qualia, a pioneer cross device technology, Kathy and her team are building the company to empower marketers with the ability to reach consumers from intent to conversion. Under her leadership, the company has achieved a 2,153% growth rate in 4 years.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Hacking for Energy
2017-11-13
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIA GRADUATE STUDENTS
Hacking for Energy challenges students to develop and test solutions to critical problems facing the energy industry using the Lean Startup methodology. Students apply to the class after independently forming interdisciplinary teams of 4, proposing a solution to a problem submitted by the energy industry. If accepted, the student teams will use the course to test and build their solution by getting out of the classroom, talking to customers, and interacting with industry professionals. Students must apply by November 13th to participate in the Spring 2018 semester.
Find out about info sessions and match meetups to form a team here.

Fundamentals of User Research (Workshop)
2017-11-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
One of the core tenets of human centered design is understanding the needs of others. The ability to uncover and solve unmet needs is something all successful startups do well. Additionally, this acute awareness of users has been proven to drive innovation and creativity in more traditional settings.
Join us in this introductory sprint to learn how to use design tools including interviewing, analogous spaces, empathy probes, and more. By the end of the sprint, you will have practiced these tools to understand communities and pinpoint areas of opportunity for entrepreneurship.
This sprint is hands-on and fast paced! Come with your own idea or we will provide you with a topic to research. This event is open to all Columbia affiliates.

Annual Fall Venture Fair (Event)
2017-11-01 18:00 - 20:00
INVITE ONLY
The Annual Fall Venture Fair provides students with the opportunity to present their ideas and receive critical feedback from successful entrepreneurs and other knowledgeable practitioners from our entrepreneurial community in a fun and energized forum. Each student participant has their own booth at the event.
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Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2017-11-01 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.
