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Announcing the Fall 2019 Prototyping Fund Awardees

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 ...

Merciless Motors is turning the motor vehicle industry on its head

The traditional motor has not been innovated in ages. The one in your car is essentially the same one that your grandparents had. That is, until now! Merciless Motors is reinventing the standard moto...

Responsible Venture Formation

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...

Resources for Female Founders by a Female Founder

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...

Announcing the Spring 2019 Prototyping Fund Awardees

On Thursday, February 21st awardees of the Prototyping Fund gathered at the Tandon MakerSpace to review various methods and tools for prototyping. To kick off the session, we asked the teams to share...

"Test Everything"

I am the founder and CEO at My Wellbeing, where we take the stress out of finding the right therapist for you through personalized matchmaking, community building, and curated content.   “Test ...

How to Build an Experiment and Test Your Assumptions

Motivote is a digital accountability platform that harnesses behavioral economics to make voting fun, easy, and social. With team-based commitments and gamification, we’re increasing young voter tur...

Experimenting With the Business Model

Sunthetics is developing a more efficient and sustainable path to make a chemical intermediate for nylon. Nylon is used in a variety of industries, from textiles to plastics, yet is one of the most un...

Meet the Fall 2018 Lean LaunchPad Teams! Part 2

This semester, students in the NYU Courant Masters of Science in Computing, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation program are taking their ideas from concept to company through NYU’s Lean LaunchPad cours...

Make, Learn from Users, Iterate and Reframe: Themes from the Prototyping Fund Showcase.

Originally posted on the MakerSpace blog here. “There are a lot of things to be worried about these days, but if you focus on trying to create new things, your curiosity can outgrow your fear.” Da...

Meet the Fall 2018 Lean LaunchPad Teams! Part 1

This semester, students in the NYU Courant Masters of Science in Computing, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation program are taking their ideas from concept to company through NYU’s Lean LaunchPad cours...

3 Things to Consider When Pitching VCs

As a founder you have to pitch your idea, constantly. Whether it’s through a university competition, at a dinner party, or part of a fundraising pitch to investors. To help founders prepare for the...