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For a person with hearing loss, a room full of people talking all at once can be a nightmare scenario.

It’s no secret that coordination between marketing and sales is an important component of generating revenue for businesses – unfortunately the reality isn’t quite so harmonious.

Director's Note: Happy Halloween! October was a big month for eship news!  We hope you enjoy all the features.  We are heads down focusing on the final Eclectic Convergence logistics and execution.  Hope to see you at Cornell Tech on November 15th for a great day of inspiring speakers and connecting with the Cornell eship [...]

Prakhar Singhania, an undergraduate exchange student from India studying supply chain, food science and material science, stood at the lectern and spoke quickly, outlining a scenario that seemed far from the third-floor conference room of eHub on Oct. 22.

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works has incubated more than 117 businesses and its member companies have created 849 new jobs, raised $205 million in capital and generated over $123 million in revenue, according to data released to mark the downtown business incubator’s 10-year anniversary.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Jen Barnwell ‘96, president of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection.

Entrepreneurship at Cornell is hosting more hackathons than ever before this year – on topics as broad as food, AI, health tech, digital ag, animal health and talent management. The weekend-long events allow students from diverse backgrounds to come together to develop innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.

Company leaders in healthcare, fintech, agtech, venture capital and basketball will take the stage as speakers for the 2024 Eclectic Convergence conference in New York City, organized by Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

Thirteen faculty members are recipients of 2024 Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, receiving funds of $1,500 to $3,000 to help develop or expand courses and add teaching assistants.

From its conception in the fall of 2023 to its launch in the spring of 2024, Gorges Ventures, a student-managed and financed investment club, met a resounding, enthusiastic response both from seasoned entrepreneurs who became the startup’s advisors and from fellow classmates, the fund’s investors.

Director's Note: Go teams! Happy fall, everyone!  Leaves are starting to change….slowly.  Cornell beat Yale in football….YAY! Our 24 teams for eLab are selected and busy doing customer discovery.  And our big NYC conference is around the corner – we hope to see you at Eclectic Convergence on November 15th at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt [...]

Twenty-nine Cornell MBA students in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, together with PhD candidates from across Cornell University and postdoctoral fellows from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, have joined the third cohort of Cornell’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows program, an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and translation program offered by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Cornell and a group of institutional partners have created the Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine to advance energy storage technology and boost large-capacity battery manufacturing in upstate New York – which could enable advances in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

Sometimes a researcher goes into the lab and comes out with a discovery. Sometimes that discovery is issued a patent. Very rarely does the process also involve an undergraduate, a potential breakthrough for biomedical printing and cell therapy, and a little help from Bill Nye ’77 the Science Guy.

For Joseph Astrachan, a co-author of Cornell’s Family Business Leadership online certificate program, a family-run business is a generational tradition.

More than 300 students learned about the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Cornell during a kickoff event Sept. 5 at eHub in Collegetown.

Cornell Tech today announced the newest cohort of 13 startup companies that will enter its established Runway incubator program this September.

Cornell University’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows (LSTIF) gathered in midtown Manhattan at Cornell’s 570 Lexington Avenue space to pitch their startup ideas and celebrate a successful year at their culminating showcase event on March 16.

Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech are pleased to announce that David Reiss joined their faculties on July 1, 2024, as Clinical Professor of Law and Research Director of the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law.

The lines between two of New York City’s defining industries – artificial intelligence/technology and design – are increasingly blurry.

Director's Note: Enjoy summer! Summer means lots of planning for Entrepreneurship at Cornell – budgeting, planning, new program discussion, etc.  But the news just keeps coming!  Enjoy the rest of your summer! -Zach Shulman '87, JD'90 Director, Entrepreneurship at Cornell $10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture CenterArthur Wolcott ’49 went [...]

Arthur Wolcott ’49 went to an auction in Dundee, New York as a Cornell senior, looking for a good deal on a typewriter.

Entrepreneur Saira Patel has always been reluctant to jump into a pool or an ocean because of the hassle it creates with her hair.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Jamey Edwards, president & chief strategy officer at Koko Home.

Director's Note: Summer...Internships! Have a wonderful summer, everyone!  We are especially delighted to share that our Entrepreneurship at Cornell program placed 83 student interns at a variety of relatively smaller companies for summer 2024.  These students are ready to make an impact!  If you are a business owner and would like to hire a student [...]

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has selected the 2024 cohort of startup teams participating in its Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator. Notable for their innovative use of AI and new technology, the 28 companies are pursuing forward-thinking solutions in healthcare, hospitality, agriculture, entertainment, and more. The program The Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA) enables graduate students to develop their entrepreneurial pursuits during the summer when they might otherwise feel pressure to push their dreams aside and gain internship experience in an established company. The accelerator is a structured and supportive 10-week program that provides participants the time, network, and knowledge to develop their business ideas into defined strategies and marketable products. The entrepreneurs receive hands-on training in weekly workshops, professional networking opportunities, and are supported in one-on-one consultations by dedicated Entrepreneurs in Residence. Enabling innovation MBA students planning to work full time on their startups post-graduation were eligible to apply for a stipend from the Vrinda Kadiyali Student Entrepreneur Fund. Stephen Smith ’91, MBA ’95, established the fund in honor of Vrinda Kadiyali, the Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management, who inspired him to launch his startup. Smith’s idea ultimately became Naviance, the successful college and career readiness software. Smith believes that the summer between the […]

Dylan Seale ’25, is an avid freestyle skier, the kind of slopestyle Olympic event that enraptures audiences with its gravity-defying aerial flips, jumps and sliding down rails.

“In this accelerator, we not only have our faculty explore their deep scientific questions but also help them expand their mindset to think of themselves as innovators and entrepreneurs,” said Loren Busby, director of BioVenture eLab, a part of Enterprise Innovation. She shared these remarks at the 2024 Business Plan Challenge pitch competition, which took place at Uris Auditorium on June 4.

Director's Note: Summer mode Summer has arrived in Ithaca. If you have any plans to come upstate, please let us know as we’d love to get together in person!  Students have mostly left for the summer, including to over 75 internships placed through our office.  Fall semester will be here before we know it! -Zach [...]

For Sammi and John Collins, the spark of innovation was born of hardship.

The city-seeded research campus on Roosevelt Island has been a quiet force in New York City’s tech economy yet is still little known even as students, faculty and alums play a crucial role in the booming AI marketplace.

Since 1929, Jeremy Brunner’s family has been in the business of manufacturing environmentally friendly gardening products, from fertilizers to lawn food and potting soil.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Trisha Beher ’25, founder of Women Leaders of Color at Cornell and the Art Shine Foundation.

This semester, four freshmen founded an organization that provides a space for student entrepreneurs to build and think creatively.

For Malika Grayson, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’16, earning advanced degrees in mechanical engineering at Cornell propelled her entrepreneurial journey in STEM advocacy, inspiring her to motivate others to pursue their dreams and overcome challenges.

Student teams from eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, and Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Runway Startup Program at Cornell Tech pitched their innovative ideas at San Francisco’s Autodesk Gallery on March 28.

Anyone tying the knot or attending a wedding in recent years has likely heard of The Knot Worldwide,

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Tim Barry ‘93, the chair and CEO of VillageMD, and this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.

During his sophomore year as a full-time student in Applied Economics and Management at Cornell, Dan Cane ’98 co-founded CourseInfo, LLC, which would become Blackboard, Inc., an online learning platform and global educational technology solution.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Peyton Johnson, a member of the Class of 2024 and founder of a company that helps students find off-campus housing.

Everyone knows the feeling: a jolt of attention that heightens your senses in a crowded room, looking over the edge of a tall structure, during an important moment in a sports event, or when startled by an unexpected sound. It’s a central component of a biological response—our bodies are hardwired in this scenario to, among other things, sharpen their senses in response to stimuli.

Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) has announced the Ignite Innovation Acceleration grant recipients for the Fall 2023 application cycle.

Spotlighting How Groundbreaking Research at Weill Cornell Medicine Translates into Revolutionary Care Through Collaborations

New research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business sheds light on career development and entrepreneurship within the global high-end fashion industry.

Director's Note: Signs of spring Spring is, well, starting to spring! We have been teased by some warmer days, which truly seem to transform Cornell overnight.  For entrepreneurship, spring is the time for one of our big conferences.  The Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration is April 11th and 12th.  Hope to see you then!  Also, spring [...]

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is proud to announce that Cate Khan ’99, cofounder and CEO of VerishopGroup and a Dyson School graduate, has been selected to receive the inaugural Dyson Alumni Leadership Award. Jinhua Zhao, David J. Nolan Dean of the Dyson School, will present the award to Khan at Dyson Leads, April 11, 2024, in New York City, where Khan and Zhao will also engage in a fireside chat about responsible leadership.

Six first-year students from the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Engineering and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science came away with top honors for their agricultural innovation idea to address India’s pollution problem during the Digital Agriculture Hackathon Feb. 16-18.

Healthcare is in the midst of a quiet revolution.

Members of the Quick Stitch team said they definitely felt “jostled” after meeting with mentors during the 2024 Animal Health Hackathon.