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Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters. Leslie Founders is a community of NYU student founders committed to launching and scaling ven...
Beyond the Bench is an ongoing series highlighting NYU faculty and researchers who are turning their research into real-world ventures. Read the full series here. Brain aneurysms, which affect as many...
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Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters. Most founders chase inspiration. Melissa Mash built infrastructure. Long before Dagne Dover b...
In my first post (Unlocking Impact: What NYU Researchers Need to Know About the NSF I-Corps Program), I explored how the NSF I-Corps program serves as a powerful catalyst for moving research from the ...
This is the second post in our series on the NSF I-Corps Teams program. In my first article, I covered the fundamentals: what NSF I-Corps is (a transformative seven-week program designed to help acade...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! On February 13, 2026, the NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute and the Berkley Center for Entrepreneu...
You have an idea. That’s the first, most exciting step. And because this is 2026, your first instinct is probably to turn to the easiest, fastest, and smartest partner you know: AI. Stuck on a name?...
If you are new to NYU, whether as an undergraduate or a graduate student, and even vaguely curious about startups, you are in the right place and at the right time. NYU has quietly become a serious la...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! Join us in celebrating the J-Term Startup Sprint Class of 2026! From Jan. 5-16, we had the privilege ...
Beyond the Bench is an ongoing series highlighting NYU faculty and researchers who are turning their research into real-world ventures. Read the full series here. The abuse of drugs both legal and ill...
A founder asked me a question earlier today that stopped me in my tracks. He asked something like: “What is the point of customer discovery if I can just spin up an app in Cursor (or the like),...
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