Entrepreneurship

To kick off Startup Week, a four-day celebration of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, The Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship announced the first winners of the newly established entrepreneurial research fellowship awards for PhD students. Each academic year, the Lang Center will award up to four students with a fellowship of $5,000. This year’s fellows will present their research publicly at the Entrepreneurial Research Showcase event in the spring of 2018.

Co-founded by Nili Gilbert ’03, Matarin Capital Management aims to return integrity to finance.

With the co-founding of LOLA, Jordana Kier  ’14 aims to revolutionize feminine care.

Olympic fencer Keeth Smart ’10 talks about his transition from professional athlete to fitness technology entrepreneur.

What it took to land an investment from Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank.

Our new framework to equip students with the skills and knowledge to lead businesses around the globe for the next 100 years.

Making the Forbes 30 Under 30 List is no small accomplishment. Getting an MBA from Columbia Business School, launching a visionary startup that disrupts its industry, and raising seven figures in funding is even more impressive.

As the co-founder and former COO and CFO of one of New York’s largest SaaS businesses, ShopKeep, as well as a former board member of Kickstarter and an advisor to several NYC technology companies, David Olk '11 has raised well over $100 million of venture capital throughout his career.