Columbia Entrepreneurship

Design Community Study Day, Spring 2022
2022-05-04 11:00 - 15:00 UTC
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.

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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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.

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).

Open Studio Hours
2022-04-26 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-25 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-19 05:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-18 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-13 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-04-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-11 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-04-06 13:30 - 15:30 and 8 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.

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.

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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Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
2022-04-14 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-07 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.

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.
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Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
2022-03-31 06:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-24 18:30 - 19:30
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 EIR. 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.

Application Deadline: Columbia Startup Lab 2022-2023 Cohort
2022-03-28 00:00 - 23:59
Applications for the 2022-2023 Cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab are now OPEN!
Columbia alumni, graduating by June 1, 2022 and including Teachers College and Barnard, are eligible to apply.
Submit an application here.

Social Enterprise Conference, Capital for Good, Spring 2022
2022-03-24
Hosted by the Tamer Center at Columbia Business School, this event, located in the finance capital of the world, provides a unique opportunity for attendees to tap into the vibrant ecosystem of capital for impact through the lens of philanthropy, impact investing, ESG, and social venture and business examples. Social impact leaders in business, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy will speak to how they are changing the way we think about how capital is sourced and used to generate sustainable solutions to global, systemic challenges. Attendees will hear from speakers about where opportunities exist to pursue future careers of impact on both the financing and implementation sides of social impact capital.

Spring Break - No Events
2022-03-14 - 2022-03-18
