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The Week Ahead at the Leslie eLab

Hi Everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful spring break and some time away from all the books and assignments. It is always good to get some time to recharge your batteries, see new sights, and expe...

Lessons Learned: Launching Online Classes as Products

Case Study: Dr. Surly’s School for Mad Scientists If you've ever built a death ray you know how hard it can be to get the tech right. Writing firmware for hardware products is its own special kind o...

The Week Ahead at the Leslie eLab

Hi Everybody! Welcome to a new week at the Leslie eLab! Though winter may be holding a tight grip on the city, we won't let it slow us down! And neither should you! The Leslie eLab is always a safe ha...

A Day in the Life: Vengo's Brian Shimmerlik

Brian Shimmerlik is the CEO and founder of Vengo. Founded in 2012, Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-p...

The Week Ahead at the Leslie eLab

Hi everybody! Can you believe it is the second week of December already? This semester has passed all too quickly, and yet, looking back, it is incredible how many things have happened in the Leslie e...

Lessons Learned: Pitching to Investors

Hannah Salwen and Lauren Graham are the founders of Bäro and both attended NYU. Bäro is a platform for peer-to-peer renting of everyday goods. We make it possible for people to rent items they don...

Lessons Learned: Just Pitch

Rohit Mittal is a junior undergraduate in the Stern School of Business. Rohit is CEO and co-founder of Mitley, which is an online platform for musicians to rent their equipment to other musicians. He ...

Lessons Learned: Startups are Hard

Abhi Ashutosh is a Junior at NYU CAS studying Computer Science, Business, and Math. He is the co-founder of Kipin Hall, President of TEDxNYU, and on the E-Board of Tech@NYU and HashtagNYU. His love of...

Lessons Learned: A Startup's Secret Weapon—Customers!

Fang-Ke Huang is a postdoctoral fellow in NYU Langone Medical Center, applying the proteomic approach to understand the brain's functionalities such as learning and memory. Fang-Ke got his PhD from We...

A Day in the Life: Comixology's David Steinberger

David Steinberger is the CEO and co-founder of comiXology. Founded in 2007 shortly before co-winning the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge, comiXology is a platform for the sale and reading of digital comic...

The Week Ahead at the Leslie eLab

Hello everybody! As we are moving into the third week of full operation at the Leslie eLab, I want to highlight some of the great resources we have available for all of you, as well as some of our out...

Introducing Talking to Humans

In my 16 years as a venture capitalist, I have observed countless teams write a business plan, build their product, and only after they built it, seek customer feedback. Unfortunately, this “if you ...