Entrepreneurship
There are numerous organizations at and affiliated with Columbia intended to encourage and facilitate entrepreneurship at Columbia. Some are specific to a division or school, most are targeted at students, many have overlapping target constituencies.
Contents
At Columbia
SEAS
Student Groups
- SETI (Society for Entreprenuership and Technological Innovation; founded during 2008-2009; website hasn't changed in a year)
- Computer Science Department:
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- ADI
- APAM
- SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Administrative Initiatives
- CTICE
- entrepreneurial program
- entrepreneurial minor
Courses
- CS
- ENG
- minor in entrepreneurship
- Required Courses:
- ENGI E2261: Introduction to accounting and finance (3.0 points)
- BUSI W3021: Marketing and marketing management (3.0 points)
- IEOR E4998: Managing technological innovation and entrepreneurship (3.0 points)
- Electives (either two courses from list A or one course from list A and one from list B):
- A: Engineering electives (at least one)
- CHEN E4020: "Protection of Industrial and Business Property" (3.0 points)
- CIEN E4136: "Entrepreneurship in Civil Engineering and Construction" (3.0 points)
- COMS W4444: "Programming and Problem Solving" (3.0 points)
- BMEN E3998: "Projects in Biomedical Engineering" (3.0 points)
- IEOR E4550: "Entrepreneurial Business Creation for Engineers" (3.0 points)
- ISME E4310: "The manufacturing enterprise" (3.0 points)
- SCNC W3010: "Science, Technology, and Society" (3.0 points) or URBS V3310: "Science and Technology in Urban Environments" (3.0 points) (but not both)
- B: Other electives (no more than one)
- ECIE E4280: "Corporate Finance" (3.0 points)
- IEOR W4308: "Industrial Budgeting and Finance Control" (3.0 points)
- A: Engineering electives (at least one)
- Required Courses:
- minor in entrepreneurship
GSB
Student Groups
Administrative Initiatives
- lang center, aka lang foundation
- career management center
- SBCP small business consulting program
Courses
- greenhouse
University-wide
- STV
- venture lab (startup program)
- contact: [3] David Lerner
- venture lab (startup program)
Undergraduate (see also SEAS above)
Student Groups
- CORE
Courses
Affiliated with Columbia
- CVC (2006-; 1,212 members): a meetup group mostly active among alumni. Open to all CU affiliates.
NYC-based, not-affiliated with CU, but open to Columbia affiliates
InSITE (open to CU + NYU Business and Law students; competitive)
NYTM (2004-; 14,000 members)
NY technology M
http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Technology-Meetup/
hackNY
hackNY.org organizes internships and lectures in the summer and hackathons during the school year
NYCEDC/NYCIF initiatives
bigapps
nycseed
nycseedstart
NYC media lab
NYC events
- NY entrepreneur week April 12-16 2010
other NYC university groups
- NYUVC (?; ? members):
- tech@NYU