Library
What We're Reading
Harvard Business Review:
How to Encourage Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team
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Techstars:
Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars Lifts Student-Led Ventures With New Cohort Program
Non-NYU Startup Accelerators
M-Corps:
Focuses on getting founders through the Valley of Death to launch pilots, fulfill first orders, and get new cleantech products to market.
Non-NYU Co-Working Spaces
FutureWorks:
An incubator for early- and growth-stage startups to get investor-ready to scale through expert mentorship, a series of essential workshops, and a cohort of founders.
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MARKETPLACE:
The creator economy is turning to the sharing economy for camera gear
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Business Den:
Bra startup targeting smaller-chested women raises six figures
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Fox Business:
Luxury online bedding company Brooklinen opens pop up shop
NYU Abu Dhabi
ECON-UH 2512 FinTech Innovation: Finance, Technology, Regulation:
FinTech innovation is the hottest topic in Financial Services and touches all aspects of industry transformation. Digitizing a financial institution or competing with established players requires an interdisciplinary approach. For FinTech entrepreneurs and investors to be capable of creating or evaluating innovative business models that can generate revenues they need to possess knowledge on 3 key areas: Finance (quantitative methods and behavioral finance), Technology (artificial intelligence, blockchain, API) and Regulation (MIFID2, PSD2, GRDP). In this course we will cover these key three areas and study their implications for FinTech founders and investors, established financial institutions and regulators.
School of Professional Studies
PUBB1-GC 3561 Publishing Start-Ups: Strategies for Success:
The expansion of digital distribution has opened many new doors for publishing entrepreneurs interested in creating start-up media businesses. What does it take to create a potentially successful start-up? What is the ideation and review process, the value proposition, and the marketplace? What publishing start-ups have worked, and which failed—and why? In this course, we will take a close look at companies such as Pottermore, Scribd, Oyster, BookRiot, BookBub and Epic. While the primary focus will be on book startups, we will also look at magazine media and social media/technology start-ups. We will hear from entrepreneurs in the field, as well as venture capitalists who take chances on these companies. What are they looking for? What are the variables that matter? This course will be a road map to start-ups and a valuable introduction to the concepts discussed in the Capstone course.
School of Professional Studies
MEST1-UC 6012 Social Media:
Social media is calling into question traditional media models and providing new ways to facilitate meaningful exchanges and value creation in both the commercial and public spheres. It requires new ways to conceptualize communication flows and strategies and to understand how they influence cultures, economies, and society as a whole. Social media also requires new skills t conduct successful commercial and grassroots operations and campaigns. This course introduces the student to new developments in social media technologies and techniques; discusses the key communication and economic attributes that power this medium; helps them understand how social media can be used as part of an organization’s communications strategy; identifies key skill sets and knowledge students can acquire for entrepreneurial innovation and employment in this area, and lastly; exposes them to some of the legal, privacy, and other unfolding social concerns that accompany this dynamic new medium.
