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April 17, 2014

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Ithaca College and Cornell and Colgate Universities – GREAT events!

The week of April 7th saw 3 events in upstate NY that broadly featured entrepreneurship!

On April 8th, we had a huge UVANY meeting/event at Ithaca College that featured student pitches from 9 different upstate colleges/universities and a keynote by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO of Chobani.  He was fantastic!  Here are 3 press hits that give all the details:  Press 1, Press 2, Press 3.

On April 10th and 11th, Cornell University held it annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration.   Here is a link to the schedule.   Key features were the eLab Demo Day (eLab is Cornell’s student business accelerator; see live stream link here – start at minute 10), a moderated discussion with Jeff Boyd, the current Chairman and former CEO of Priceline, and recognition of the 2014 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, Greg Galvin.

And finally, kudos to the Colgate University entrepreneurship team for hosting a great event called Entrepreneurship Weekend on April 11th and 12th.  Here is a video clip of the featured panel, which had a star studded cast, including Ashton Kutcher.

What a powerhouse eship week!

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December 31, 2013

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2013 in Review

Happy New Year everyone!!  The WordPress.com stats folks prepared a 2013 annual report for IthacaVC.  Has some funny facts in it.  My stretch goal remains Fred Wilson in terms of community :).

Here’s an excerpt from the report:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Enjoy your New Year’s Celebration!

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November 14, 2013

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Fabulous Startup Book List

OnlyOnce is a great startup blog that Matt Blumberg writes (I don’t know Matt).  Today, Matt published a great list of books called the Startup CEO “Bibliography”.  It is an awesome list that should be shared widely.  In addition, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute at Johnson also has a list of Blogs & Books that is worth checking out (there is some overlap with Matt’s list).

Here is Matt’s list in full (his blog post obviously also lists them out):

And don’t forget Matt’s own book, Startup CEO:  A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.

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June 26, 2013

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StartFast Syracuse

Yesterday I visited StartFast up in Syracuse with my VC partner Jennifer and Ithaca-based digital media pro Ken Rother.  StartFast is a Tech Stars affiliated accelerator, and it is a testament to what human drive can accomplish.  Not to belabor the point, but Syracuse is not known being a hot bed of startups.  That is changing.  Nasir Ali, Martin Babinec and Chuck Stormon have launched (and now Nasir and Chuck are running) a great program.  This is the second full year of its operation.

We met with teams originally from Los Angeles, Florida, Toronto, Texas….and Syracuse.  All have viable business concepts and are pivoting and working away.  The space is just what you would expect at an accelerator – open, high ceilings, full of din (not food, but noise).

My favorite StartFast company so far is Calester, which simply pushes an events calendar to you based on your own calendar availability.  Visiting Ithaca?  Calester will tell you what is going on that fits your schedule.  All in one spot so you don’t have to look in more than one spot.  Simple and useful.  And it will populate your calendar too.

Thanks to Nasir, Chuck and Martin for StartFast!

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April 26, 2013

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Cornell Co-Founder Connection

Happy to report that Entrepreneurship@Cornell has partnered with CoFoundersLab to launch Cornell C0-Founder Connection to provide the broad Cornell University community with a free way to find a co-founder/business partner.  A great team is critical to startup success, yet good co-founders/business partners are hard to find.  Cornell is dedicated to helping our entrepreneur community better solve this problem.

Are you looking for a co-founder?  TWO simple steps:

1) Create a FREE entrepreneur profile on Co-Founder Connection.

2) Check out an in-person Co-Founders Wanted Meetup in a city near you.

Whether you’re just starting out with an idea and looking for your first co-founder or you’re two years into a startup and looking for that third or fourth co-founder, use Co-Founder Connection to find that key team member.

The Co-Founder Connection co-founder matching platform is available to the entire Cornell University community, past and present. The best part? Co-Founder Connection plugs into the CoFoundersLab database of thousands of entrepreneurs looking for a co-founder!  The portal also allows extensive search and filter capabilities to narrow the search down to co-founder candidates with specific criteria, such as those people whom have certain skills, are part of specific communities (co-working spaces, accelerators, etc.), and have complementary entrepreneur personalities.

About CoFoundersLab

CoFoundersLab is the largest online community of entrepreneurs looking for a co-founder. CoFoundersLab partners with organizations and universities across the country to provide a co-branded, co-founder matching resource for their communities. Cornell University joins Harvard University, TechStars, Columbia University, New York University and many others as a proud CoFoundersLab partner, dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and business creation.

Join the Cornell University entrepreneurial community and find your co-founder today with Co-Founder Connection!