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On Tuesday, February 18th awardees of the Prototyping Fund gathered at the Tandon MakerSpace to review prototyping methods and meet each other. Over the next 2 months, the cohort will build different...
Built in NYC recently released their 50 Startups to Watch in 2020 list. Of the 50 startups (all founded within the last 3 years!), 13 have NYU founders. Find out more on the list below: The Cl...
This post originally appeared on the MakerSpace blog here. On December 6, 2019, the MakerSpace event space was bustling with students, faculty and outside visitors coming to see the prototypes deve...
Every week, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute elects a Startup of the Week. We then invite the founders of these startups to share a blog post with our community. These posts can be inspirational, edu...
On Friday, October 11th, Caren Maio (Gallatin ‘07), founder of Nestio, spoke with the NYU Female Founders community at the Leslie eLab. At the event, entrepreneurs from 15 different NYU colleges ask...
On Friday, October 4th awardees of the Prototyping Fund gathered at the Tandon MakerSpace to review various methods and tools for prototyping. We encouraged participants to use prototyping as a means ...
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Creating a constructive organizational culture Earlier this year, the NYU Wagner Capstone team collaborating with the Entrepreneurial Institute shared some of their initial findings and early thinki...
If you’re a female founder, you’ve undoubtedly heard the depressing stats: For the second year in a row, female-led companies have raised just 2.2% of venture capital investment and 74% of U.S. VC...
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