Columbia Entrepreneurship

Open Studio Hours
2022-04-04 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-05 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-06 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-04-11 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-13 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-04-18 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-19 05:00 - 19:00 UTC and 2 more dates
During Studio Hours, student teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio. This is a time to discuss ideation, prototyping, customer discovery, and next steps for your venture.
Students are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.
No need to RSVP! Learn more and get the address here.

Data Science Day 2022
2022-04-06 08:00 - 17:00
Data Science Day provides a forum for innovators in academia, industry, and government to connect. The April 6, 2022 event will feature lightning talks from leading Columbia University faculty members; a poster session on the latest data science innovation; and keynotes from senior industry and government representatives.
Register here

Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
2022-04-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-14 18:30 - 19:30
Hosted by the Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard, These meetups, open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia, are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Entrepreneur in Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for one-on-one conversations with student entrepreneurs. Learn more about Athena Entrepreneurs here – join at the Athena Center in the Milstein Building.

Healthcare Venture Day
2022-04-15
Healthcare Venture Day showcases passionate and talented student founders across Columbia University, featuring pitches of their innovative, world-changing companies solving the toughest problems, with an ambition to scale across healthcare industry. HC Venture Day will include a pitch competition, inspiring guest speakers who take on healthcare challenges in the entrepreneurship space every day. The day will conclude with a networking hour, bringing together like-minded individuals to openly discuss their ideas.
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Rolling Admission: Columbia Build Lab Applications, Spring 2022
2022-04-25
The Columbia Build Lab, which connects MBA student founders with technical talent from around the University, is currently taking applications for undergrad and graduate level Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers for the summer 2022 cohort. See here for more information or to apply.

Columbia Business School: PhD Research Showcase
2022-04-29 11:30 - 12:30
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Join the Lang Center at Columbia Business School to hear the latest Research Fellows present updates on their research findings in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Dynamics of Culture in Entrepreneurial Ventures (Soo Min Cho PhD ’21)
Soo Min’s research examines the dynamics of organizational culture in the context of entrepreneurial ventures, such as the role of culture in growth and strategic orientation of ventures.

Does Emotion Expression Variability Help or Hinder Leaders? (Zaijia Liu PhD ’20)
Zaijia will present research on the variability of entrepreneurs’ how emotional expressions influence the impressions they leave among their followers.

Credit Supply and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Regions (Seyed Mansouri PhD ’21)
Seyed studies how financing frictions impact the real economy (e.g. machinery and product quality, entrepreneurship, investment activity, etc).

She Opened the Door… to Entrepreneurship
2022-04-30
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Since 2018, the She Opened the Door initiative has aimed to enlighten, educate, elevate, and empower self-identifying women from across the University. We’re excited to announce a new all-day in-person event for those interested in learning from Columbia entrepreneurs. The day will kick off with a keynote address from Barbara B. Roberts, Former Entrepreneur in Residence (now Advisor) at the Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School.

Almaworks Demo Day
2022-04-30 11:30 - 12:30
Almaworks Demo Day will be held on Friday, Apr 29, 11:30am on Zoom. Startups from this incredible Spring ’22 cohort will present and pitch their companies to the Columbia Community, as well as a variety of VCs and Angels. This will be followed by a Q&A session for each team.
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Design Community Study Day, Spring 2022
2022-05-04 11:00 - 15:00
We’re opening the doors to Columbia Entrepreneurship’s Design Studio located at Riverside Church on the 4th floor in Room 430 on 5/4 from 11-3pm creating a relaxing work space for students across Columbia. Team projects + individual work are welcome. We’re providing snacks, coffee, relaxation stations and offering a few voluntary design activities to help you get unstuck. Feel free to stop by the Design Studio (645 W 120th Street) anytime between 11-3pm.

Big Mistakes Founders Make
2022-05-05 14:30 - 17:00
Join Columbia Engineering to learn the basics about fundraising for investors and legal considerations for startups. This event is open to all schools and students campus-wide.
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Design Studio, 645 W 120th St, Room 430, NY, NY 10027
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Summer 2022 Open Studio Hours - By Appointment
2022-06-01
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea, and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship 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.
Summer Open Studio Hours will be made available by appointment: please email designstudio@columbia.edu.
Regular Open Studio Hours will return in Fall 2023.

University - First Day of Classes
2022-09-06

Open Studio Hours
2022-10-03 12:00 - 14:00
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea and want to get feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio at Columbia Startup Lab Morningside? Are you interested in learning more about how human centered design can help you get unstuck on class or work projects? Do you or your team just need a creative environment to work in?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions, please come to Open Studio Hours.

Open Studio Hours
2022-10-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-17 12:00 - 14:00
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea and want to get feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio at Columbia Startup Lab Morningside? Are you interested in learning more about how human centered design can help you get unstuck on class or work projects? Do you or your team just need a creative environment to work in?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions, please come to Open Studio Hours: Room 430 at Riverside Church (entrances at 91 Claremont Avenue or 645 W 120th Street).

Design Your Future - Fall 2022
2022-10-11 19:00 - 21:30
Open to all current Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
REGISTER HERE
The future can feel uncertain. What if you discover that your internship isn’t the right fit? What happens if you start to drift away from the things you feel passionate about? What trajectory is right for you?
We created Design Your Future to sort through these types of questions. In this workshop, students will learn to apply design in order to better navigate career and life choices in school and beyond.
DYF will meet in the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio:
Tuesday, October 11th — 7:00pm to 9:30pm ET.
This not for credit program is available to all current students, including Teachers College and Barnard. Plus, there will be coffee and snacks! If you are interested, please fill out the registration form.
We will get back to everyone with directions on Monday, October 10th.
Learn more about DYF in this Forbes feature!

Venture Capitalist Panel
2022-10-12 15:00 - 16:15
Open to all current Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
Building a start-up? Come learn how to fundraise from top venture capitalists!
Join Columbia Engineering at Davis Auditorium for a talk with VC from Floodgate, Firstmark Capital, and more.
Speakers:
ANN MIURA-KO: CO FOUNDING PARTNER FLOODGATE
Ann Miura-Ko is a Co-founding Partner at Floodgate. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, Ann was also named the “Most Powerful Woman in Startups” by Forbes.
Ann is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in the pre-seed and seed stage companies because of her background as a Ph.D. in math modelling of infosec at Stanford. Ann has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Poparazzi, Emotive, and Refinery29.
Ann is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford, a co- director of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford, a member of the Board of Trustees for Yale University, and a cofounding member of All Raise, a nonprofit committed to improving diversity in funders and founders.
MATT TURCK: PARTNER FIRSTMARK CAPITAL
Matt Turck is a French American technology entrepreneur and investor. A partner at NYC-based venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, he invests across a broad range of early-stage Internet, software and hardware startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Prior to his investing career, Matt was an entrepreneur and the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle and became the cornerstone of Oracle’s initial foray into search technologies.
Matt is passionate about building communities, and organizes Data Driven NYC (a 17,000 person group that focuses on data and AI) and Hardwired NYC (a 7,000 person group that focuses on frontier/deep tech). Over the years, Data Driven NYC and Hardwired NYC have featured as speakers about 500 of the top CEOs, CTOs, VCs and senior executives in their respective areas
SPENCER CRAWLEY: CO FOUNDER & PARTNER FIRSTMINUTE CAPITAL
Spencer Crawley is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of firstminute capital. The fund currently has $325m AUM, a team of 20, and invests at the seed-stage across technology sectors, focused on Europe and the US. The firstminute investor base includes over 120+ Unicorn founders of technology businesses. Spencer sits on the board of Generation Home, a UK digital mortgage lender, and is a Director of the NYSE-listed Tailwind International, a SPAC platform which has launched three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn. Spencer started his career at Goldman Sachs in Moscow, before becoming the first hire at DMC Partners, a Special Opportunities fund spun out of Goldman Sachs. The firm was founded by Goldman Sach’s Global Co-Head of Trading & Securities, the Global Co-Head of Strategies & Structuring, and the CEO of the Russia & CIS business, alongside the former Head of TPG of Europe and CFO of Index Ventures. This was followed by an MBA at INSEAD and a stint at AppDirect.

CSL Uptown Member Mixer
2022-10-13 18:00 - 20:00
*Please note that this event is at capacity and no longer accepting RSVPS*

Open to Columbia Startup Lab Uptown members.

Current Columbia and Barnard students who are working on a startup idea are eligible to become members of the Columbia Startup Lab Morningside. Please fill out this application for consideration. Admission is rolling.
If you are a current student who is not actively working on a startup idea, but is interested in entrepreneurship, please check out some of the other events on this calendar.

Start Me Up Bootcamp Kickoff (Rolling Deadline to Apply)
2022-10-19
APPLY HERE
Open to all Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
Columbia Engineering hosts select group of entrepreneurs for a two-week program designed to build your startup. The bootcamp introduces participants to the Lean Launchpad methodology and techniques to direct customer discovery through field interviews.
Participants are required to conduct at least 20 customer interviews; attend online sessions and engage with other bootcamp teams and entrepreneurs. Teams “get out of the building” to learn from potential customers to determine if they are solving a real-world problem with a sizeable market opportunity.
Benefits include

Meet other entrepreneurs and alumni
Join for endless networking opportunities
Receive feedback from Columbia faculty and mentors
Learn about potential funding opportunities
Find out where to plug in Columbia’s wide-ranging entrepreneurial community
