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This series of practicums explores the question of what it means for a person to be entrepreneurial, including skills, approaches, spirit, and more. Each week features an active discussion or working session with a guest practitioner who has impacted the world through his or her entrepreneurial effort. Led by Greg Pass, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer.
All practicums are held at Cornell Tech in Big Red from 10a to 12p unless otherwise noted.
- 8/30 - Storytelling with Robert Wong at Google
- 9/6 - Early entrepreneurship with Carter Cleveland at Art.sy, Elias Roman at Sognza, and Brian Shimmerlik at TaxiTreats (all NYC Venture Fellows)
- 9/13 - Intrapreneurship with Rob Cook
- 9/20 - Art with at MoMA (field trip to MoMA, 10:30a to 12p)
- 9/27 - Venture capital with Albert Wenger at Union Square Ventures
- 10/4 - Design with Autodesk
- 10/11 - TBD (either this date or 11/8)
- 10/18 - Teambuilding with Shannon Callahan at Andreessen Horowitz
- 10/25 - Social entrepreneurship with Charles Best at DonorsChoose
- 11/8 - TBD (either this date or 10/11)
- 11/15 - Product management with Jason Goldman at Medium
- 12/6 - Lessons learned with David Tisch at BoxGroup
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To help students understand the value of entrepreneurialism, what it takes to be entrepreneurial, and how to achieve real-world impact. These topics can be understood commercially, societally, and personally.
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To broadly expose students to varying forms and means of real-world, entrepreneurial impact, from commercial success to societal good, from computer science to inter-disciplines, from the pure tech sector to the information economy transforming all sectors, from startups to growth opportunities on and at any stage.
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To give students first-hand contact with entrepreneurial individuals that can serve as role models and connectors.
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To help students develop personal models of entrepreneurialism that will motivate and aid their own entrepreneurial efforts after graduation.
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Students should spend a little time preparing for each practicum by reading about the guests.
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Students must proactively engage the guests and each other, asking attentive questions and making followup comments.
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At the end of each practicum, one or two students are called upon to note their key takeaways from that practicum.
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In the final practicum, many students are called upon to present their key takeaways from the entire series of practicums, to be discussed as a group and with the guests.
This series is graded S/U. Attendance and participation are required. Students are allowed one unexcused absence.