This is part of my ongoing Series on University Entrepreneurship.
This past Sunday I attended the closing demos of a week-long(!) development extravaganza put on entirely by a new student group on Columbia's campus. The format was a seven day hackathon interspersed with various instructive workshops and capped by the aforementioned final demofest. The event attracted some terrific sponsors as well as a veritable murderer's row of panelists/judges who provided some amazing feedback to the various student hackers that presented their work. Among the panelists were the likes of Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, David Jagoda of Andreessen Horowitz, Thatcher Bell of Draper Gotham, Prof. Chris Wiggins, Justin Singer from IA Ventures and Steve Jacobs, CIO of Gilte Groupe. Of course the faculty advisor of this group was none other than one of the great evangelists for student entrepreneurship in the country- my colleague Chris Wiggins, co-founder of HackNY.
To read the full, original article click on this link: A New Breed of University Entrepreneur Arrives on Campus - David B. Lerner
Author: Dave Lerner
