eShip News – November 2024
Director's Note: Happy holidays, everyone! First off, Gobble Gobble!! We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. On our end, our big Eclectic Convergence conference at Cornell Tech earlier in the month was fantastic! One of our best due to our superb speakers. And our team also held two hackathon events in November, one in [...]
eShip News – October 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – September 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – August 2024
Director's Note: Welcome Back!! Our fall semester is off to a great start, with our eShip Kickoff event on Thursday, September 5th. It is wonderful to have the students back on campus and feel all the entrepreneurship energy! Reminder, if you want to be on top of the Cornell eShip ecosystem, join our listserv – [...]
eShip News – July 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – June 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – May 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – April 2024
Director's Note: Entrepreneurship in sight Student course finals are in sight! End of semester is in sight! And next year’s planning is in sight! We will take a big breadth, but not a big pause. Keep in touch, and if you are not already on the eship listserv, please join to stay up to speed [...]
eShip News – March 2024
Director's Note: It's time for Celebration! All hands on deck for the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration April 11th and 12th on our Ithaca campus. The 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year will be featured, the 2024 Student Business of Year winner will be announced, and we will hear from the co-founder and President of Whipnotic. And [...]
eShip News – February 2024
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 [...]
eShip News – January 2024
Director's Note: Welcome Back! Students are back and slogging through the snow (and rain ☹). Luckily, entrepreneurial activity is non-stop on our campuses – actually the volume is incredible. Even though I am in the middle of Cornell’s eship ecosystem, I find the volume of activity incredible and inspirational! One event I would to call [...]
eShip News – November 2023
Director's Note: A season of giving and thanks We hope you had a great Thanksgiving. In case you are wondering, lake effect snow arrived in Ithaca this past week! Students are bundled up and getting ready for finals, so things are relatively calm on campus. Our eship activity continues at a fast pace, but we [...]
eShip News – October 2023
Director's Note: Eship listserv is all treats Happy fall, everyone. Might get some snow showers tonight in Ithaca! Every once in a while, we like to remind people that the BEST way to stay on top of the Cornell eship ecosystem is to subscribe to our listserv. Currently there are over 6500 members, and all [...]
eShip News – September 2023
Director's Note: Intense Energy Fall is always in entrepreneurially insane time of year for Cornell. Students are back with intense energy. Our listserv is blistering with messages. We hold our annual eship kickoff event, which attracts over 300 attendees. And, we are not stopping to take a breath. We hope to see many of you [...]
eShip News – June 2023
Director's Note: Summer is here! Happy July, everyone! It is full on summer in Ithaca. Hot, rainy, sunny, calm, windy – I am guessing you remember the saying about Ithaca weather “if you don’t like it, just wait 5 minutes!” We are looking forward to kicking off the fall semester soon in late August and [...]
eShip News – May 2023
Director's Note: Congrats Class of 2023 Spring has turned to summer too fast! The weather has been unbelievably gorgeous over the past few weeks with more sunshine in the forecast. Cornell had a fantastic graduation over Memorial Day Weekend, and now we are planning for fall semester and a new bunch of entrepreneurial minded students! [...]
eShip News – April 2023
Director's Note: Springing forward as the semester ends We have much to be thankful for as we wind down the semester. Lots of excited interns being placed through our internship program. Lots of cool end of the year competitions, like the NYS Business Plan Competition, in which many Cornell student-founded companies participate. Lots of engaged [...]
eShip News – March 2023
Director's Note: Celebrate Spring with entrepreneurship Happy Spring Everyone! I just looked at the 10-day Ithaca forecast, and there are some 60 degree days scheduled for next week! That definitely means “happy spring!”. And it means that literally overnight all the students will start wearing shorts and t-shirts. It also means that you should come [...]
eShip News – February 2023
Director's Note: Two Plugs Hi there Cornell eship community! Still looking like winter in Ithaca despite the relatively mild season. Two plugs for this month’s newsletter. Number one: if you are interested in meaningful connections, then you should definitely consider joining Cayuga Forum, our virtual, facilitated peer-to-peer coaching and networking program, exclusively for Cornell alumni. [...]
eShip News – January 2023
Director's Note: Happy Holidays Happy Winter everyone! Students are back, there is snow on the ground (not much), and things are hopping on campus. Check out our new entrepreneurship course listing matrix, which is updated and much more functional, and also consider joining us for our annual entrepreneurship Celebration in April, where we will honor [...]
eShip News – December 2022
Director's Note: Happy Holidays We hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season!! We had a large amount of news this month, so take advantage of the time off to read it 😊. One exciting bit of news is that we will be announcing our 2023 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year in January 2023. [...]
Startup Cornell Episode 16: Julia and Alexander Littauer MBA ’20
The 16th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Julia and Alexander Littauer both MBA ‘20, co-founders of Sovi Wine, a company that’s created high-quality non-alcoholic wines for times when you want a glass of wine but not the alcohol.
eShip News – November 2022
Director's Note: Thankful We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Gobble Gobble!! And we hope that your holiday season is fantastic as well. As the semester here winds down, we have much for which to be thankful. Super students chasing all sorts of entrepreneurial pursuits, dedicated faculty teaching and pushing them, and inspired alums [...]
eShip News – October 2022
Director's Note: Happy Halloween! The semester is literally flying by! We just held our annual Eclectic Convergence at Cornell Tech on October 21st. It was a fantastic conference with our guest speakers going into details on their entrepreneurial journeys. If interested, you can view the entire event here: https://live.alumni.cornell.edu/summit. And we also just held our [...]
eShip News – September 2022
Director's Note: It's Fall- time for Eclectic Convergence! We hope that you all are enjoying your fall semester as much as we are! The eLab teaching team just accepted a new batch of 28 teams into our student business accelerator program, we held our annual eship kickoff event with over 300 students attending and our [...]
eShip News – August 2023
Director's Note: Welcome Back! Freshman have moved in, fall semester started and our eship Kickoff event is next week on September 8th! Every year a new burst of energy enters the Cornell ecosystem, and it is wonderful to see everyone back on campus conducting business pretty much as usual. Speaking of business, we are super [...]
eShip News – July 2023
Director's Note: Save the Date and Register Happy Summer Everyone! Ithaca has been in a bit of a weather drought lately, but I am literally looking out my window now and it is raining. Hey, it is Ithaca, and it will be sunny in like 10 minutes and then rain again later! On the eship [...]
eShip News – June 2022
Director's Note: Enjoy summer Happy summer everyone! Yes, most students are off campus for the summer, and we are in a bit of planning mode for the upcoming academic year. I would like to remind folks that the best way to stay on top of the Cornell entrepreneurship ecosystem is to join our listserv. Just [...]
eShip News – May 2022
Director's Note: Best Wishes to Class of '22 Happy Summer 2022! Cornell’s graduation is always on Memorial Day Weekend, and each year we see a wonderful group of entrepreneurs leaving Cornell to continue on their startup journeys. We will continue to support them (although not nearly as much as when they were students), but they [...]
eShip News – April 2022
Director's Note: Reasons to Celebrate We just wrapped up our Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration, April 28th and 29th. It was a fantastic, in person, event featuring our 2022 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, Tiffany Norwood ’89, six other wonderful speakers, eLab Demo Day, and a reception celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Entrepreneur Network! [...]
eShip News – March 2022
Director's Note: Keep Engaging Spring is still trying to start in Ithaca! We have had more March snow than I can remember for a long time. Looking past the weather, our next big event is the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration April 28th and 29th. We hope to see many of you there – here is [...]
eShip News – February 2022
Director's Note: Spring is ahead March is here finally, and hopefully the weather will start feeling like spring! If you have not already checked out the EaC Startup Cornell Podcast, take a listen here. The latest episode features Rich Horgan ‘14, founder of Cure Rare Disease, a non-profit biotech company working to create individualized therapeutics [...]
eShip News – January 2022
Director's Note: Keep progressing ahead Happy Winter Everyone! It has been downright cold in Ithaca for the last 4 weeks, but it is tough to complain given that we are located in upstate NY. We are looking forward to next week’s balmy heatwave of 35 degrees 😊. Students are back, things are hopping and we [...]
eShip News – December 2021
Director's Note: Keep progressing ahead We hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season despite the current CC (yes, that would be Covid Craziness). As I am sure you have heard by now, Cornell and Tompkins County are in the middle of the CC storm, but I am hoping that we can all keep [...]
eShip News – November 2021
Director's Note: Wrapping up November Happy holidays, everyone! As we enter December, students are heads down with wrapping up classes and heading into finals. We hope that the holidays bring some stress relief for them! We wrapped up our Eclectic Convergence conference in mid-November. It was wonderful to utilize the new Verizon Conference Center at [...]
eShip News – October 2021
Director's Note: Fall Festivities Happy Halloween!! And almost Happy Thanksgiving!! We are all geared up for Eclectic Convergence, which will be held live at Cornell Tech on November 12th. We will be live streaming as usual, but we are so looking forward to having a “large” live event in NYC. And the night prior to [...]
eShip News – September 2021
Director's Note: All fall things Fall is the season of many things! Pumpkins, Halloween, college soccer (Cornell’s men’s team is kicking butt!), beautiful foliage…..and lots of entrepreneurship! Our eLab teaching team just selected 20 teams to join its student business accelerator program for the 2021/2022 academic year and we are gearing up for the Big [...]
eShip News – August 2021
Director's Note: Welcome Back Students arrived back to Cornell in August, and honestly, it is fabulous to see people on campus streets! Even though we are definitely not quite back to normal (masks now required indoors and outdoors – hopefully that changes soon), seeing lots of students on campus adds a much needed energy boost [...]
eShip News – July 2021
Director's Note: Enjoying Summer We cannot believe that “school” starts in less than a month! As you likely know, Cornell plans to be just about 100% live come this fall term, and we hope that our many international students will be able to get back to Ithaca! The Delta variant is a bit unpredictable, but [...]
eShip News – June 2021
Director's Note: Not so lazy days of summer June wrapped up with 2 featured speakers on our CEN/EaC produced webinar series. You can check out the videos of Tammy Jones ’87 and John Noe ’99 here by scrolling to the bottom of the playlist. We will be resuming the webinars in late August! As we [...]
eShip News – May 2021
Director's Note: Springing into emergence We hope that you all are having a wonderful spring, particularly as we emerge from the pandemic. While we all face a bunch of uncertainty in how we emerge, it is great to see people on campus again and actually gathering in person! With Celebration 2021 behind us, we are [...]
eShip News – April 2021
Director's Note: Spring has sprung As we wind down the semester, we typically expect a slow down on a number of fronts. But, honestly, that is just not happening! We just held our big Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event with almost 1,000 registered. Celebration included our eLab Demo Day, the BenDaniel Venture Challenge, Student Business [...]
eShip News – March 2021
Director's Note: Spring has sprung This past week it hit at least 60 degrees every day, but of course next week it will probably snow! Regardless, it feels like we have turned a corner on many fronts, and hopefully the road ahead will be a bit smoother for everyone. Our big spring event is coming [...]
eShip News – February 2021
Director's Note: Ithaca WINters We hope you are managing the polar vortex! Our thoughts go out to our friends down south who got a huge taste of Ithaca winter, but with no infrastructure to deal with it. Hang in there! Speaking of WINters, our students and young alumni are continuing to outperform on the startup [...]