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What Happens at the VC Pitchfest?

Each semester, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute invites a select group of startup teams to pitch in front of real venture capital investors to get unfiltered feedback on their pitch, and candid advic...

Ethical Entrepreneurship: NYU Wagner and The Entrepreneurial Institute collaborate on research

Organization-Cultural Fit: What is it?   This post is the second in the series on Ethical Entrepreneurship To view the first post in this series, click here. The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and...

Announcing the Fall ‘18 Prototyping Fund Awardees

The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and the Design Lab @ NYU Tandon MakerSpace are pleased to announce the Fall 2018 Prototyping Fund cohort! Since 2013, the NYU Prototyping Fund has awarded teams of st...

Startup Sprint Teams: Where Are They Now?

The next Startup Sprint is coming up in January ‘19. This two week long startup accelerator program offers NYU startups funding, mentorship and training, but the experience from past participants go...

Healthcare Makerthon: From strangers to co-founders

A journey of innovation, friendship, and immense growth The five of us were total strangers when we met during the events leading up to the 3rd Annual NYU Healthcare Makerthon. We came from diverse ba...

Design Lab’s Prototyping Stories: Learn about Fortify Rehab

This post was originally published on the Tandon MakerSpace blog. Read about Fortify Lab, one of the projects from the Spring 2018 Prototyping Fund’s (a collaboration between the Design Lab @NYU M...

Meet the Teams in the Summer Faculty Sprint

Please join us in congratulating the 13 NYU startup teams that will participate in the inaugural 2018 Summer Faculty Sprint! During the week of August 27th, faculty entrepreneurs and their Ph.D./postd...

$25k in Grant Funding through the VentureWell E-Team Grant

Looking for funding for your startup? Do you have a science or technology invention that could scale to address a social or environmental need? The VentureWell E-Team grant could be for you. This thre...

This Is Going To Be Big

Why VC Feedback is Often Bad Data

Summer Launchpad 2018 Series: Starting a Non-Profit

If you’ve been reading this blog and thinking about finally taking the first step in starting your own business, we’re here to remind you that no amount of research and reading will teach you as m...

3 Lessons Learned During Week 1 of SLP

Summer is in full swing at the Leslie eLab! The 6th cohort of the NYU Summer Launchpad (SLP) accelerator is underway and teams are currently defining their customer validation and growth milestones fo...

Announcing Faculty Startup Sprint, Summer '18

Announcing our first-ever Faculty Startup Sprint! The Faculty Startup Sprint is a new 5-day intensive program where faculty entrepreneurs and their PhD/postdoc teams test the commercial potential of t...