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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 ...

Lessons Learned: Fail and Fail Again (Until You Succeed!)

Michael is an NYU student and serial entrepreneur. He recently founded Skylight, an app that's transforming how you find your new home.  Michael is a graduate of Draper University and the Founder I...

Welcome Entrepreneur-in-Residence Andy Moss

The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute is excited to announce that tech veteran Andy Moss has joined our team as the first of two Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) at the new NYU Leslie eLab. As an EiR, ...

Lessons Learned: The Science of Customer Development with Steve Blank

Steve Blank's 5-Day Lean Launchpad, held at NYU on August 25-29, 2014, was a transformative experience for young entrepreneurs like myself looking to gain experience in and expert insights on launchi...

Lessons Learned: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone to Understand Your Customer

VoiceHacker (formerly Speech Empowered), helps busy professionals improve their public speaking and presentation skills through biofeedback and a supportive online community. VoiceHacker began as an ...

Lessons Learned: How to Rapid-Learn in Brain Paradise

PeekBite started as mobile app for in-restaurant menus, food orders and payment.  Currently working on their next version of the product, they've documented their pivot as a comedic spoof here.  &...